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We're looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams.
Your future team
To be a 100-year company, we are proudly building a world-class engineering organization composed of empowered teams that are equipped with the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers.
Engineering at Atlassian prioritizes initiatives that advance AI and support our customers' transition to the cloud while consistently delivering maximum value through our core product suite - Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.
We seek individuals who are eager to shape the future and believe in the power of collaboration to achieve extraordinary results together.
In this role, you will:
- Build and ship features and capabilities daily in highly scalable, cross-geo distributed environment
- Be part of an amazing open and collaborative work environment with other experienced engineers, architects, product managers and designers
- Review code with best practices of readability, testing patterns, documentation, reliability, security, and performance considerations in mind
- Mentor and level up the skills of your teammates by sharing your expertise in formal and informal knowledge sharing sessions
- Ensure full visibility, error reporting, and monitoring of high performing backend services
- Participate in Agile software development including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, team retrospectives, and show and tell demo sessions
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.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Your background:
- 1-3+ years experience building and developing backend applications.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience).
- Experience crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant RESTful micro-services.
- Proficiency in any modern object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go, Scala, Python, etc.).
- Fluency in any one database technology (e.g. RDBMS like Oracle or Postgres and/or NoSQL like DynamoDB or Cassandra).
- Real passion for collaboration and strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Broad knowledge and understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience of public cloud offerings (AWS, GAE, Azure).
- Familiarity with cloud architecture patterns and an engineering discipline to produce software with quality.
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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
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .
Skills Required
- 1-3+ years experience building and developing backend applications.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably Computer Science) or equivalent experience.
- Experience crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant RESTful micro-services.
- Proficiency in a modern object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go, Scala, Python).
- Fluency in at least one database technology (RDBMS like Oracle or Postgres and/or NoSQL like DynamoDB or Cassandra).
- Broad knowledge of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (AWS, GAE, Azure).
- Familiarity with cloud architecture patterns and engineering discipline to produce quality software.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and a passion for collaboration.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO is presented as flexible or "unlimited" in practice alongside five paid volunteer days and charitable donation matching. Additional options like sabbaticals after five years and various leave programs broaden time‑away support.
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Flexible Benefits — A remote‑first "Team Anywhere" model provides a monthly remote‑work allowance, ergonomic support, and limited periods to work outside the designated location. A configurable Flex Wallet and learning budget enable personalization of benefits and resources.
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What We Do
Atlassian creates teamwork solutions for high-performing teams. Our portfolio of collaboration and work management software products includes Jira, Confluence, Trello, Loom and Rovo. More than 300,000 businesses worldwide rely on Atlassian’s technology, including 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Our solutions support various business teams and they help organizations plan, track, and deliver their biggest ideas together.
Why Work With Us
At Atlassian, we believe we can accomplish so much more together than apart — which is why everything from our tooling — to our distributed workforce — to how our teams are structured is rooted in collaboration. Come join us and help unleash the potential of every team.
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