Senior Software Engineer

Job title: Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian responsible for building and operating backend systems and data-heavy platforms. This role emphasizes scalable distributed architectures across multi-cloud environments and delivering high-quality software that enables internal teams to self-serve.

What You'll Do

• Take ownership and accountability for your team's systems, processes, and capabilities to meet goals; work with your team to deliver projects with velocity and high quality; lead through change and ambiguity and help the team adapt.

• Define coding techniques and patterns to improve reliability and maintainability; participate in code reviews to set standards; propose technical solutions within your team's domain and navigate ambiguity.

• Drive informed decisions for your team by using data; collaborate with product, design, and other functions; communicate clearly and provide timely feedback to colleagues.

• Design, build, and operate scalable backend/data pipelines; optimize for high throughput and low latency distributed workflows.

• Contribute to platform capabilities that enable self-service for internal teams and support infrastructure-as-code practices.

• What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with distributed systems and data-heavy platforms

• Strong backend engineering experience with JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin preferred)

• Experience with data-heavy platforms and streaming architectures (Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, Flink or similar)

• Understanding of CDC, backpressure, delivery semantics, and building resilient data pipelines across distributed systems

• Proven ability to operate and optimize systems at scale (high throughput, low latency)

• Multi-cloud or cloud-native infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP, or both)

• Familiarity with deploying and operating services across cloud providers, cloud primitives (S3, object storage, message queues), infrastructure-as-code, and building self-service platform capabilities

• Ownership, leadership, and ability to drive change within a team

• Proficiency with the team's codebase, languages, tools, libraries, idioms, and patterns; strong code reviews

• Collaboration, data-driven decision making, and ability to influence product, design, and other stakeholders

• Nice to Have

• Kotlin experience preferred

• Compensation & Benefits

• Base pay within the new-hire range for US zones: Zone A $180,000-$235,000; Zone B $162,000-$211,500; Zone C $149,400-$195,050 (zone confirmed with recruiter)

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

• Health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and more