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The Role
Provides technical leadership on complex software projects from design through launch, addressing architecture, reliability, security, testing, and observability at scale. Leads company-wide engineering initiatives, establishes technical standards, mentors engineers, and promotes engineering excellence. Requires extensive full-stack development experience, strong communication, systems engineering expertise, customer-focused decision-making, and familiarity with A/B testing.
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Engineering | Seattle, United States | Remote, Remote
Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.
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:
Your background:
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.
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Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.
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:
- Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch
- Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects and determine plans-of-attack on large projects
- Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
- Be a champion across the Atlassian organisation for continually raising the technical bar and evangelizing a high technical standard
- Partner across Engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
- Transfer your depth of knowledge and share best engineering practices to improve engineering excellence
- Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Atlassian
Your background:
- 10+ years experience in Full Stack development with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Scala, Node, Javascript, React.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience).
- Deep experience in systems engineering at scale with regards to testing, reliability, security, and observability.
- Excellent communication skills in written and verbal forms, and an ability to communicate complex technical issues to a range of technical and non-technical audiences (management, peers).
- Experience with collaborating with and mentoring junior members of the team.
- Consider the customer impact when making technical decisions.
- Familiarity with A/B testing techniques.
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.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of full-stack development experience
- Experience with one or more prominent programming languages such as Java, Scala, Node.js, JavaScript, or React
- Bachelor's or Master's degree, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Deep experience in systems engineering at scale, including testing, reliability, security, and observability
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including explaining complex technical issues to technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience collaborating with and mentoring junior team members
- Ability to consider customer impact when making technical decisions
- Familiarity with A/B testing techniques
What the Team is Saying
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Atlassian Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave spans 26 weeks for birthing parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents, alongside inclusive family-formation benefits such as fertility treatment, adoption, and surrogacy. Additional supports include menopause resources and caregiving-related programs.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a U.S. 401(k) company match with immediate vesting and multiple contribution options. These are complemented by other financial wellbeing tools like HSAs/FSAs.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage is paired with mental-health resources, disability and life insurance, and options such as HSA/FSA. Descriptions also point to solid plan choices with access to counseling, coaching, and 24/7 support.
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The Company
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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