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Software Engineer

Posted Yesterday
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in Seattle, WA
123K-193K Annually
Mid level
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in Seattle, WA
123K-193K Annually
Mid level
Design, build, and operate backend services for data-heavy, distributed systems. Work with JVM languages, event streaming (Kafka/Kinesis/Flink/SQS), and multi-cloud infrastructure to deliver resilient, high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines. Own features end-to-end, write high-quality code, and collaborate across teams to drive delivery and platform improvements.
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Technical Skills:
  • Strong backend engineering experience with JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin preferred)
  • Experience with data-heavy platforms and streaming architectures - Hands-on work with technologies like Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, Flink or similar event streaming systems. You should understand patterns like change data capture (CDC), backpressure management, delivery semantics, and how to build resilient data pipelines that maintain consistency across distributed systems.
  • Proven ability to operate and optimize systems at scale - Experience designing for high throughput and low latency complex distributed workflows.
  • Multi-cloud or cloud-native infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP, or both) - Familiarity with deploying and operating services across cloud providers, understanding cloud primitives (S3, object storage, message queues), infrastructure-as-code, and building platform capabilities that enable self-service for internal teams.

What you'll bring:
  • 3-5 years of backend engineering experience with distributed systems and data-heavy platforms
  • Ownership and delivery - You handle complex tasks and small projects autonomously, ensuring high quality and maintaining proactive communication throughout the process. You follow through on your commitments, taking ownership of your work, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with team goals.
  • Technical proficiency - You're skilled at writing high-quality code that is well-structured, appropriately flexible, reusable, efficient, and adaptable to changing requirements. You're proficient in the team's codebase and its associated languages, tools, libraries, idioms, and patterns. Your code reviews contribute and apply the high quality standard of the team.
  • Collaboration and influence - You embrace change, navigate ambiguity, and adapt quickly to it. You collaborate with your team and others to navigate complex and ambiguous situations. You actively contribute to decisions that impact the team and use data to measure the impact of features you deliver.

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: $147,600 - $192,700
Zone B: $133,200 - $173,900
Zone C: $123,300 - $160,975
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.
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 .

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