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Principal Engineer, Cloud Transition

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Remote
Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA
171K-274K Annually
Remote
Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA
171K-274K Annually

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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
What you'll do

  • Build and ship features and capabilities daily in highly scalable, cross-geo distributed environment
  • Be part of an amazing open and collaborative work environment with other experienced engineers, architects, product managers, and designers
  • Review code with best practices of readability, testing patterns, documentation, reliability, security, and performance considerations in mind
  • As a Principal Engineer, interface with customers, product managers, business stakeholders
  • Ensure full visibility, error reporting, and monitoring of high performing backend services
  • Participate in Agile software development including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, team retrospectives, show and tell demo sessions


Qualifications
Your background

  • 8+ years of experience building and developing backend applications
  • Proficient in customer interaction
  • Expertise in AWS and streaming technologies such as Kafka
  • Prior experience in Cloud Migration would be a plus
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
  • Experience crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant RESTful micro-services
  • Proficiency in any modern object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go, Scala, Python, etc.)
  • Fluency in any one database technology (e.g. RDBMS like Oracle or Postgres and/or NoSQL like DynamoDB or Cassandra)
  • Real passion for collaboration and strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Broad knowledge and understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience of public cloud offerings (AWS, GAE, Azure)
  • Familiarity with cloud architecture patterns and an engineering discipline to produce software with quality


Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $205,700 - $274,300
Zone B: $185,200 - $246,900
Zone C: $170,800 - $227,700
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
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 .

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