Atlassian

Senior Software Engineer

Atlassian$180K — $235K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in backend application development, particularly in self-hosted databases.
  • Proven reliability and correctness ownership of distributed systems.
  • Experience defining and improving SLOs/SLIs for tier-1 services alongside incident response protocols.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field; expertise in languages like Java, Python, or Go is essential.
  • Hands-on familiarity with SaaS, PaaS, IaaS models and public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Proficiency in at least one database technology (TiDB, Postgres, Kafka) and microservices architecture.
  • Strong mentorship skills and capability to influence through technical decision-making while considering customer impacts.

Responsibilities

  • Drive complex projects from design to launch independently.
  • Implement architectural standards and address complex challenges in new projects.
  • Conduct thorough code reviews and tackle high-risk bug fixes.
  • Serve as a role model for quality code reviews within the team.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams on cross-project initiatives.
  • Transfer knowledge effectively to excel in a Java development role.
  • Mentor junior team members to elevate their skills.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellbeing resources.
  • Paid volunteer days to engage with community initiatives.
  • Diverse perks and benefits designed to support personal and family needs.
Full Job Description
Overview

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

What You'll Do:

  • Drive large, complex projects autonomously, from technical design to launch
  • Tackle complex architecture challenges, apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
  • Lead code reviews & documentation as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems
  • Be an example for thorough, meaningful code reviews
  • Partner across engineering teams to tackle company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
  • Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Java developer.
  • Mentor junior members of the team


Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Pay Ranges

In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $180,000 - $235,000

Zone B: $162,000 - $211,500

Zone C: $149,400 - $195,050

Qualifications

Qualifications
Your Background:
  • 5+ years experience building and developing backend applications. We're building a self hosted database.
  • Own reliability and correctness of distributed systems
  • Define and improve SLOs/SLIs, incident response, on-call health, and post-incident remediation for tier-1 services
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree - Senior-level experience with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, or Scala is required.
  • Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Fluency in any one database technology (TiDB, Postgres, Kafka)
  • Experience crafting and implementing well-tested, highly scalable and performant micro-services and/or other distributed systems
  • Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time
  • Practice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision makers throughout the organization -
  • Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits

About Atlassian

Atlassian is a leading provider of collaboration, development, and issue tracking software for teams. With over 194,000 customers worldwide, including 85 of the Fortune 100, Atlassian is changing the way teams work. Our products help teams organize, discuss, and complete shared work. Atlassian has a unique business model that allows us to deliver software to teams of all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises. Our products are available on a subscription basis, with no upfront fees or long-term commitments. Atlassian was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Atlassian
Size
6,433 employees
Market Cap
$31.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.1 billion
Founded
2002
5 Year Trend
+34.9%
Revenue
$1.8 billion
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