Senior Software Engineer

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 rise 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 toward 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.

Benefits

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.