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. This is a remote position. To help our teams work together effectively, this role requires you to be located in India.

We're looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams.

You'll be part of the Trust Engineering (Anti-Abuse) Team and report to a Senior Engineering Manager.

This team is responsible for building and operating mature platforms/software systems to improve the entire company's security and trust & safety posture.

If you are passionate about improving security, trust & safety, and combating abuse, this role presents a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact!

What you'll do

1. Drive large, complex projects autonomously, from technical design to launch highly scalable, cross-geo distributed environment
2. Tackle complex architecture challenges, apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
3. Lead code reviews & documentation as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems
4. Be an example for thorough, meaningful code reviews
5. Partner across engineering teams to tackle company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
6. Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Go developer
7. Investigate and analyse behaviours, anomalies and abuse patterns
8. Lead abuse incidents and guide product and platform engineering teams on best practices that your team helps to define
9. Write automation and rules for detecting and responding to abuse on our platform
10. Mentor and level up the skills of your teammates by sharing your expertise
11. Ensure full visibility, error reporting, and monitoring of high performing backend services
12. Mentor junior members of the team

Your background

1. 5+ years experience building and developing backend applications
2. Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
3. Senior-level experience with one or more prominent languages such as Go, Python, Java, Kotlin or Scala is required - Go preferred
4. Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) - AWS preferred
5. Fluency in any one database technology (e.g. RDBMS like Oracle or Postgres and/or NoSQL like DynamoDB or Cassandra)
6. Experience crafting and implementing well-tested, highly scalable and performant micro-services and/or other distributed systems
7. Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies (e.g., XP, scrum, Kanban)
8. Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time
9. Practice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision makers throughout the organization
10. Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions
11. Experience in data engineering and analytics

It's great, but not required, if you have

1. Cloud platform/security experience
2. Familiarity with security systems and trust & safety practices, processes
3. Experience working with compliance, privacy, trust & safety, security, infrastructure
4. Understanding of cybersecurity principles, threat landscape, and best practices