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Principal Backend Software EngineerAtlassian · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Principal Backend Software Engineer

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🗓️ Posted 2026-08-31 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Other Remote Ok General
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market NA

About the Company

Our mission is to help unleash the potential of every team. Atlassian powers the collaboration that helps teams accomplish what would otherwise be impossible alone. From space missions and motor racing to bugs in code and IT requests, no task is too large or too small with the right team, the right tools, and the right practices. Over 300,000 global companies and 80% of the Fortune 500 rely on Atlassian's software, like Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Trello, to help their teams work better together and deliver quality results on time. With our 300,000+ customers and team of 10,000+ Atlassians, we are building the next generation of team collaboration and productivity software. We believe the power of teams has the potential to change the world - one that is more open, authentic, and inclusive. Computer Software Specialties: b2b enterprise software, bug tracker, issue tracker, enterprise wiki, corporate wiki, business wiki, team collaboration, project management, downtime communication, work management, teamwork, personal productivity

About the Role

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.

Responsibilities

  • ● In this role, you will:
  • ● 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
  • ● Mentor more junior members of the team
  • ● Compensation
  • ● 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.
  • ● This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Requirements

  • ● Your background:
  • ● + years experience in multiple hands-on software/technology leadership roles, with end-to-end responsibility through the software development lifecycle.
  • ● Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience).
  • ● Expertise with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, or Scala is required.
  • ● Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • ● 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.
  • ● Proficiency in Java or NodeJS.

Benefits

  • ● 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.
  • ● In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.