Senior Software Engineer

Company: Atlassian
Location: Scottsdale
Posted on: September 19, 2024

Job Description:

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

• 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
• Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Go developer
• Investigate and analyse behaviours, anomalies and abuse patterns
• Lead abuse incidents and guide product and platform engineering teams on best practices that your team helps to define
• Write automation and rules for detecting and responding to abuse on our platform
• Mentor and level up the skills of your teammates by sharing your expertise
• Ensure full visibility, error reporting, and monitoring of high performing backend services
• Mentor junior members of the teamYour background
• 5+ years experience building and developing backend applications
• Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
• Senior-level experience with one or more prominent languages such as Go, Python, Java, Kotlin or Scala is required - Go preferred
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) - AWS preferred
• Fluency in any one database technology (e.g. RDBMS like Oracle or Postgres and/or NoSQL like DynamoDB or Cassandra)
• Experience crafting and implementing well-tested, highly scalable and performant micro-services and/or other distributed systems
• 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
• Experience in data engineering and analyticsIt's great, but not required, if you have
• Cloud platform/security experience
• Familiarity with security systems and trust & safety practices, processes
• Experience working with compliance, privacy, trust & safety, security, infrastructure
• Understanding of cybersecurity principles, threat landscape, and best practices
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