Principal Backend Software Engineer

Atlassian develops software products that help teams collaborate and work effectively. The Principal Backend Software Engineer will improve engineering-team productivity by solving complex technical and architectural challenges, leading software development efforts, partnering across teams, and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Regularly unblock challenges faced in the software development cycle, from technical design to launch
• Create solutions that are used by other teams and products - Determine plans-of-attack on large projects
• Routinely solve complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
• Lead code reviews and documentation and take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems
• Set the standard for meaningful code reviews - Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide projects
• Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Software Engineer
• Mentor more junior members of the team

Requirements:

• 10+ years experience in multiple hands-on software/technology leadership roles, with end-to-end responsibility through the software development lifecycle
• Bachelor's degree
• Expertise 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, or Azure)
• Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time
• Practice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision makers throughout the organization
• Consideration of customer impact when making technical decisions
• Computer Science degree
• Experience in Developer Experience or Developer Productivity
• Proficiency in Java or NodeJS
• Experience in at least one additional language
• Experience in CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment)