Principal Backend Software Engineer
Atlassian•San Francisco, CA
•$174,051 - $273,775•Remote
About The Position
We're looking for a Principal Backend Software Engineer to join our team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams. 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. To help our teams work together effectively, this role is fully remote, but requires you to be located in either US Pacific or Mountain time zones.
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 with a preference for Computer Science 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
Nice To Haves
- 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)
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
Benefits
- health and wellbeing resources
- paid volunteer days
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
