Principal Backend Software Engineer

Engineering | Sydney, Australia | Remote, Remote | Auckland, New Zealand

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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.

With a sufficient timezone overlap with the team, we're able to hire eligible candidates for this role from any location in Australia and New Zealand.

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

Your future team

To be a 100-year company, we are proudly building a world-class engineering organization composed of empowered teams that are equipped with the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers.

Engineering at Atlassian prioritizes initiatives that advance AI and support our customers' transition to the cloud while consistently delivering maximum value through our core product suite - Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.

We seek individuals who are eager to shape the future and believe in the power of collaboration to achieve extraordinary results together.

* Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch

* Deliver solutions that are used by other teams and products

* Determine plans-of-attack on large projects

* Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects

* Lead code reviews and documentation, as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems

* Set the standard for thorough, meaningful code reviews

* Partner across Engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects

* Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Software Engineer