About the Role
Atlassian offers flexibility in work location, allowing employees to choose between office, home, or a hybrid model. This approach empowers employees with greater control over their personal and family priorities. The company can hire individuals in any country where it has a legal presence.
Responsibilities
- Strong backend engineering experience with JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin preferred)
- Experience with data-heavy platforms and streaming architectures, including Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, Flink, or similar event streaming systems
- Understanding of patterns like change data capture (CDC), backpressure management, delivery semantics, and building resilient data pipelines
- Proven ability to operate and optimize systems at scale, designing for high throughput and low latency complex distributed workflows
- Multi-cloud or cloud-native infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP, or both), including deployment and operation of services across cloud providers
- Familiarity with cloud primitives (S3, object storage, message queues), infrastructure-as-code, and building platform capabilities for self-service
- Handle complex tasks and small projects autonomously, ensuring high quality and proactive communication
- Follow through on commitments, taking ownership of work, and ensuring timely delivery and alignment with team goals
- Write high-quality, well-structured, flexible, reusable, efficient, and adaptable code
- Proficiency in the team's codebase, associated languages, tools, libraries, idioms, and patterns
- Contribute to code reviews, applying the team's high-quality standards
- Embrace change, navigate ambiguity, and adapt quickly
- Collaborate with team members and others to navigate complex and ambiguous situations
- Actively contribute to decisions impacting the team
- Use data to measure the impact of delivered features
Requirements
- 3-5 years of backend engineering experience with distributed systems and data-heavy platforms
Skills
- JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin)
- Kafka
- Kinesis
- SQS
- Flink
- Change data capture (CDC)
- Backpressure management
- Delivery semantics
- Resilient data pipelines
- Distributed systems
- High throughput and low latency workflows
- AWS
- GCP
- Cloud primitives (S3, object storage, message queues)
- Infrastructure-as-code
- Platform capabilities
- Self-service enablement
- High-quality code writing
- Code reviews
- Collaboration
- Adaptability
- Data analysis for feature impact
Location
- Any country where Atlassian has a legal entity
Work Type
- Office
- Home
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3-5 years of backend engineering experience
Salary/Compensations
- Zone A: $147,600 - $192,700
- Zone B: $133,200 - $173,900
- Zone C: $123,300 - $160,975
Benefits
- Health and wellbeing resources
- Paid volunteer days
About the Company
- Atlassian's mission is to unleash the potential of every team through software products designed for all types of work, enabling collaboration to achieve the impossible.
- The company believes that unique contributions from all employees drive success and fosters an inclusive environment.
Equal Opportunity
- Atlassian does not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.
- All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
- Accommodations or adjustments can be supported at any stage of the recruitment process.
