Job Description

Overview

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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

We have teams in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, India, and are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our team, experienced with improving security , trust & safety , and combating abuse , this role presents a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact!

You’ll be part of the Australian Trust Engineering (Anti-Abuse) Team and report to a Senior Engineering Manager. This team is responsible for building and operating services and platforms that improve the entire company’s security and trust & safety posture.

Responsibilities

What you’ll do

• Investigate and analyse behaviours, anomalies and abuse patterns

• Write automation and rules for detecting and responding to abuse on our platform

• Lead abuse incidents and guide product and platform engineering teams on best practices that your team helps to define

• Drive large, complex projects autonomously, from technical design to launch highly scalable, cross-geo distributed environment

• 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

• Mentor and level up the skills of engineers on your team and throughout the organisation by sharing your expertise in formal and informal knowledge sharing sessions

• Ensure full visibility, error reporting, and monitoring of high performing backend services

Qualifications

Your background

• 5+ years experience building and developing backend applications and/or platform capabilities, applying platform as a product mindset

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with a preference for Computer Science degree

• Expertise in any modern programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Java, Kotlin or Scala, etc.)

• Expertise in any one database technology (e.g. RDBMS like Oracle or Postgres and/or NoSQL like DynamoDB or Cassandra)

• Expert understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) – AWS preferred

• Expertise in crafting and implementing well-tested, highly scalable and performant micro-services and/or other distributed systems, with a focus on operational excellence

• Expertise in cloud architecture patterns and an engineering discipline to produce software with quality

• Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies (e.g., XP, scrum, Kanban)

• 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

You have expertise in one ore more of

• Familiarity with security systems and trust & safety practices, processes

• Experience working with compliance, privacy, trust & safety, security, infrastructure

• Cloud platform/security experience

• Understanding of cybersecurity principles, threat landscape, and best practices

• Experience in data engineering and analytics

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .

About Atlassian

At Atlassian, we’re motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone’s perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .

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