Senior Software Engineer - Trusted Data Platform

Overview
Working at Atlassian
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This role can be based remotely or from an Atlassian office where eligible. Whatever your preference - working from home, an office, or in between - you can choose the place that's best for your work and your lifestyle. We call this TEAM anywhere .
Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and optimizing high-performance, scalable, and resilient backend storage solutions on AWS cloud infrastructure. You will be responsible for developing distributed storage systems, APIs, and backend services that power mission-critical applications, ensuring low-latency, high-throughput, and fault-tolerant data storage. Your work will directly impact system reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
You will collaborate closely with principal engineers, architects, SREs, and product teams to define technical roadmaps, improve storage efficiency, and optimize access patterns. You will drive performance tuning, data modeling, caching strategies, and cost optimization across AWS storage services like S3, DynamoDB, EBS, EFS, FSx, and Glacier. Additionally, you will contribute to infrastructure automation, security best practices, and monitoring strategies using tools like Terraform, CloudWatch, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
In this role, you will also be responsible for troubleshooting and resolving production incidents related to data integrity, latency spikes, and storage failures, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery preparedness. You will mentor junior engineers, participate in design reviews and architectural discussions, and advocate for engineering best practices such as CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, and observability-driven development. Your contributions will directly impact the organization's ability to scale its storage infrastructure efficiently while maintaining security, reliability, and compliance with industry standards.
Qualifications
Strong Backend Development Skills
8+ years of experience in backend software developmentProficiency in Kotlin or Java for backend developmentExperience building high-performance, scalable microservices and APIsStrong understanding of RESTful APIs, gRPC, and event-driven architectures
Experience With AWS Storage Technologies
Hands-on experience with AWS S3, DynamoDB, EBS, EFS, FSx, and GlacierKnowledge of AWS IAM, KMS, and data access policies for secure storage solutionsUnderstanding of AWS networking (VPC, PrivateLink, Route 53) for optimizing storage performance
Distributed Systems & Scalability
Solid understanding of distributed databases, storage consistency models, and caching mechanismsExperience with sharding, partitioning, and load balancing to scale storage-heavy applicationsFamiliarity with event-driven architectures using AWS SNS, SQS, Kinesis, or Kafka
Performance Optimization & Cost Efficiency
Ability to profile and optimize storage performance, indexing strategies, and data retrieval latenciesExperience with cost-efficient storage solutions by implementing tiering, lifecycle policies, and data deduplicationKnowledge of benchmarking and monitoring tools (CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana)
Security & Reliability
Experience implementing data encryption at rest and in transit using AWS KMS or TLSUnderstanding of access control mechanisms (IAM roles, STS, fine-grained permissions)Experience ensuring high availability and disaster recovery using AWS backup strategies and multi-region replication
Hands-On with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & DevOps
Experience using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or CDK to manage infrastructureFamiliarity with CI/CD pipelines for backend deployments using GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, or JenkinsExperience with containerized deployments using Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), and serverless solutions (Lambda, Fargate)
Troubleshooting & Production Support
Strong debugging skills for investigating storage failures, high-latency issues, and API bottlenecksExperience using observability and tracing tools to monitor storage workloadsAbility to triage and resolve production incidents in large-scale backend systems
Collaboration & Engineering Best Practices
Strong experience in code reviews, unit testing, and API contract enforcementAbility to work cross-functionally with SREs, data engineers, and infrastructure teamsGood documentation habits for ensuring architecture decisions and design patterns are well-documented
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 .

Skills
Java, REST API, Microservices, Git, Kafka, Kotlin, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD

Experience
8+ yrs

Work arrangement
Yes