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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Atlassian
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $149,400.0 - $235,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Software Bug Management, Software as a Service, Code Review, Databases, Distributed Systems, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Google Cloud, Kotlin, Information Technology, Atlassian Tools, Apache Kafka, Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** July 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2addfa4315722c41

## About the Role

* 5+ years experience building and developing backend applications. We're building a self hosted database.
 * Own reliability and correctness of distributed systems
 * Define and improve SLOs/SLIs, incident response, on-call health, and post-incident remediation for tier-1 services
 * Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree - Senior-level experience with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, or Scala is required.
 * Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
 * Fluency in any one database technology (TiDB, Postgres, Kafka)
 * Experience crafting and implementing well-tested, highly scalable and performant micro-services and/or other distributed systems
 * Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time
 * Practice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision makers throughout the organization -
 * Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions

## Description

Working at Atlassian

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.

Responsibilities

What You'll Do:
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Drive large, complex projects autonomously, from technical design to launch

 * Tackle complex architecture challenges, apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
 * Lead code reviews & documentation as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems
 * Be an example for thorough, meaningful code reviews
 * Partner across engineering teams to tackle company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
 * Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Java developer.
 * Mentor junior members of the team


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