Senior Backend Software Engineer

Overview

Working at Atlassian

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Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and optimizing high-performance, scalable, and resilient backend storage solutions on AWS cloud infrastructure. You will be responsible for developing distributed storage systems, APIs, and backend services that power mission-critical applications, ensuring low-latency, high-throughput, and fault-tolerant data storage. Your work will directly impact system reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

You will collaborate closely with principal engineers, architects, SREs, and product teams to define technical roadmaps, improve storage efficiency, and optimize access patterns. You will drive performance tuning, data modeling, caching strategies, and cost optimization across AWS storage services like DynamoDB, EBS, EFS, FSx, and Glacier. Additionally, you will contribute to infrastructure automation, security best practices, and monitoring strategies using tools like Terraform, CloudWatch, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.

In this role, you will also be responsible for troubleshooting and resolving production incidents related to data integrity, latency spikes, and storage failures, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery preparedness. You will mentor junior engineers, participate in design reviews and architectural discussions, and advocate for engineering best practices such as CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, and observability-driven development. Your contributions will directly impact the organization's ability to scale its storage infrastructure efficiently while maintaining security, reliability, and compliance with industry standards.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in backend software development.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience working with AWS cloud services, particularly AWS storage technologies (DynamoDB, EBS, EFS, FSx, or Glacier).
• 3+ years of experience in designing and developing distributed systems or high-scale backend services.
• Strong programming skills in Java or Kotlin
• Experience working in agile environments following DevOps and CI/CD best practices.

Core Requirements

1. Strong Backend Development Skills

• Proficiency in Java for backend development.
• Experience building high-performance, scalable microservices and APIs.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, gRPC, and event-driven architectures.

2. Experience with AWS Storage Technologies

• Hands-on experience with AWS DynamoDB, EBS, EFS, FSx, and Glacier.
• Knowledge of AWS IAM, KMS, and data access policies for secure storage solutions.
• Understanding of AWS networking (VPC, PrivateLink, Route 53) for optimizing storage performance.

3. Distributed Systems & Scalability

• Solid understanding of distributed databases, storage consistency models, and caching mechanisms.
• Experience with sharding, partitioning, and load balancing to scale storage-heavy applications.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures using AWS SNS, SQS, Kinesis, or Kafka.

4. Performance Optimization & Cost Efficiency

• Ability to profile and optimize storage performance, indexing strategies, and data retrieval latencies.
• Experience with cost-efficient storage solutions by implementing tiering, lifecycle policies, and data deduplication.
• Knowledge of benchmarking and monitoring tools (CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana).

5. Security & Reliability

• Experience implementing data encryption at rest and in transit using AWS KMS or TLS.
• Understanding of access control mechanisms (IAM roles, STS, fine-grained permissions).
• Experience ensuring high availability and disaster recovery using AWS backup strategies and multi-region replication.

6. Hands-On with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & DevOps

• Experience using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or CDK to manage infrastructure.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for backend deployments using GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, or Jenkins.
• Experience with containerized deployments using Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), and serverless solutions (Lambda, Fargate).

7. Troubleshooting & Production Support

• Strong debugging skills for investigating storage failures, high-latency issues, and API bottlenecks.
• Experience using observability and tracing tools to monitor storage workloads.
• Ability to triage and resolve production incidents in large-scale backend systems.

8. Collaboration & Engineering Best Practices

• Strong experience in code reviews, unit testing, and API contract enforcement.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with SREs, data engineers, and infrastructure teams.
• Good documentation habits for ensuring architecture decisions and design patterns are well-documented.

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.

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