Provides technical leadership on complex software projects from design through launch, addressing architecture, reliability, security, testing, and observability at scale. Leads company-wide engineering initiatives, establishes technical standards, mentors engineers, and promotes engineering excellence. Requires extensive full-stack development experience, strong communication, systems engineering expertise, customer-focused decision-making, and familiarity with A/B testing.
Engineering | Seattle, United States | Remote, Remote
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.
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.
In this role, you will:
Your background:
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
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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.
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.
In this role, you will:
- Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch
- Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects and determine plans-of-attack on large projects
- Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
- Be a champion across the Atlassian organisation for continually raising the technical bar and evangelizing a high technical standard
- Partner across Engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
- Transfer your depth of knowledge and share best engineering practices to improve engineering excellence
- Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Atlassian
Your background:
- 10+ years experience in Full Stack development with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Scala, Node, Javascript, React.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience).
- Deep experience in systems engineering at scale with regards to testing, reliability, security, and observability.
- Excellent communication skills in written and verbal forms, and an ability to communicate complex technical issues to a range of technical and non-technical audiences (management, peers).
- Experience with collaborating with and mentoring junior members of the team.
- Consider the customer impact when making technical decisions.
- Familiarity with A/B testing techniques.
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
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