Senior Software Engineer

Posted 15 Hours Ago
Hiring Remotely in Seattle, WA, USA
In-Office or Remote
147K-230K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation
Atlassian provides tools to help every team unleash their full potential.
The Role
Design and build backend services for data-heavy, distributed systems using JVM languages. Work with event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, Flink), CDC patterns, and multi-cloud infrastructure to deliver resilient, high-throughput, low-latency pipelines. Own system reliability, drive technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and design to deliver high-quality solutions.
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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.
Technical Skills:
  • Strong backend engineering experience with JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin preferred)
  • Experience with data-heavy platforms and streaming architectures - Hands-on work with technologies like Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, Flink or similar event streaming systems. You should understand patterns like change data capture (CDC), backpressure management, delivery semantics, and how to build resilient data pipelines that maintain consistency across distributed systems.
  • Proven ability to operate and optimize systems at scale - Experience designing for high throughput and low latency complex distributed workflows.
  • Multi-cloud or cloud-native infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP, or both) - Familiarity with deploying and operating services across cloud providers, understanding cloud primitives (S3, object storage, message queues), infrastructure-as-code, and building platform capabilities that enable self-service for internal teams.

What you'll bring:
  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience with distributed systems and data-heavy platforms
  • Ownership and leadership - You take ownership and accountability for your team's systems, processes, and capabilities to ensure we meet our team goals. You work with your team to deliver projects with velocity and high quality. You lead your team through times of change and ambiguity and help them adapt.
  • Technical excellence and direction - You define coding techniques and patterns to the team that lead to more reliable and maintainable solutions. You're proficient in the team's codebase and its associated languages, tools, libraries, idioms, and patterns. Your code reviews define the standard and you use them to teach others within the team. You propose technical solutions in your team's domain and navigate ambiguity, understanding how your team's systems fit into larger capabilities.
  • Collaboration, decision-making and influence - You drive informed decisions for your team by using data and consulting with others. You contribute to decision making with product, design, and other functions as the team considers the customer and business impact of decisions. You lead with clarity and speed when making decisions and escalate quickly when support or more information is required. You provide timely feedback to your colleagues as part of delivery and influence others within your team towards positive impacts.

Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience.
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: $176,400 - $230,300
Zone B: $159,300 - $207,975
Zone C: $146,700 - $191,525
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
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.
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

  • Backend engineering experience with Java
  • Backend engineering experience with Kotlin
  • Hands-on experience with streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, Flink)
  • Experience with change data capture (CDC), backpressure management, delivery semantics, and resilient data pipelines
  • Proven ability to design, operate, and optimize systems at scale for high throughput and low latency
  • Multi-cloud or cloud-native infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP, S3, infrastructure-as-code)
  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience with distributed systems and data-heavy platforms
  • Ownership and leadership of team systems, processes, and delivery
  • Define coding techniques, conduct code reviews, and drive technical excellence
  • Collaborate and influence product, design, and cross-functional stakeholders in decision-making

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Atlassian Compensation & Benefits Highlights

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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.
  • 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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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
11,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

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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