Senior Software Engineer - Transactional Data Platform

Atlassian

3.5

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Sydney, Australia (Remote)

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    Position summary

    hat 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.

    Basic Requirements

    • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
    • 5+ years of experience in backend software development in Java, Kotlin
    • 3+ years of hands-on experience working with AWS cloud services, particularly AWS storage technologies (S3, DynamoDB, EBS, EFS, FSx, or Glacier).
    • 3+ years of experience in designing and developing distributed systems or high-scale backend services.
    • Experience working in agile environments following DevOps and CI/CD best practices.
    • Experience building high-performance, scalable micro-services, RESTful APIs, gRPC, and event-driven architectures.

    Why you should apply for a job to Atlassian:

  • 75% would recommend this company to other women
  • 57% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Atlassian supports remote work, allowing employees to choose their preferred locations for increased flexibility.
  • Atlassian fosters diversity with 9 ERGs, focusing on Women+ for career growith, inclusive culture, and community impact.
  • Up to 20 weeks in supplemental wage payment the first year following birth, adoption/fostering, or parentage via surrogacy.