The Senior Backend Software Engineer will design and maintain backend systems, mentor teammates, enhance performance, and ensure reliability in a collaborative Agile environment.
Working at Atlassian
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Team: Core Engineering Reliability Team
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and maintain robust backend systems and components focused on proactive and reactive incident management and post-incident management.
- Be part of an amazing open and collaborative work environment with other experienced engineers, process engineers, architects, and TPMs.
- Review code with best practices of readability, testing patterns, documentation, reliability, security, and performance considerations in mind
- Leverage data to generate actionable insights that drive continuous improvements in backend performance and incident management processes.
- Mentor and level up the skills of your teammates by sharing your expertise in formal and informal knowledge sharing sessions
- Ensure full visibility, error reporting, and monitoring of high performing backend services
- Participate in Agile software development including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, team retrospectives, show and tell demo sessions
Your background
- 6+ years of experience building and developing backend applications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
- Experience crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant RESTful micro-services
- Proficiency in any modern object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go, Scala, Python, etc.)
- Fluency in any one database technology (e.g. RDBMS like Oracle or Postgres and/or NoSQL like DynamoDB or Cassandra)
- Demonstrated ability to design and operate systems that deliver high availability and unwavering reliability for our customers.
- Real passion for collaboration and strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Broad knowledge and understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience of public cloud offerings (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Familiarity with cloud architecture patterns and an engineering discipline to produce software with quality
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
Cassandra
DynamoDB
GCP
Go
Java
Kotlin
Oracle
Postgres
Python
Scala
Atlassian San Francisco, California, USA Office
Atlassian believes the future of work is distributed and offers our people the flexibility to help them do what’s important to them. And with few exceptions, we hire people anywhere we have a legal entity as long as they have eligible work rights and sufficient team time zone overlap.
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