Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Atlassian · Posted Oct 21
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
The SRE team owns the infrastructure, tooling and automation that Jira and Confluence Cloud runs on, with a deep understanding of how Atlassian products leverage cloud infrastructure to meet customer reliability expectations. The role sits within Atlassian's Engineering organization, focused on operating high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed systems. This Senior Infrastructure Engineer will analyse and improve services and processes to reach higher levels of reliability, performance, scalability and cost efficiency, and will mentor and coach other engineers while reporting to a Senior Engineering Manager.
What you will do
- We're looking for an engineer who can analyse and help improve our services and processes to get us to an even higher level of reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 5+ years experience operating high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed software in production: building monitoring, tweaking dashboards, defining alerts, writing runbooks, etc.
- 5+ years of hands on experience with public cloud offerings (at least 1 year experience on GCP).
- Familiarity with Unix / Linux operating systems.
- Strong emphasis to debug, improve code, and automate routine tasks.
- Strong backend engineering experience in one or more prominent languages such as Java, Go or Python.
- Excellent communication skills in written and verbal forms, and an ability to communicate complex technical issues to a range of technical and non-technical audiences (management, peers, clients).
- An ability and desire to mentor and coach engineers
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in datastores (RDBMS, time-series-database, NoSql, search, analytics).
- Experience in microservice architecture.
- Experience building web-services and clients using REST/GraphQL.
- Expertise in JVM, Garbage Collection, and Performance Tuning.
Benefits and support
- Health and wellbeing resources
- Paid volunteer days
About Atlassian
Atlassian is a leading software company that builds enterprise collaboration, project planning, and issue-tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Trello. Empowering teams across the globe, Atlassian focuses on unleashing the potential of every team through advanced workflows, cloud infrastructure, and AI-driven capabilities.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2002
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $210M raised
- 2010-07-13Venture - Series Unknown$60M
- 2014-04-10Secondary Market$150M
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Chief People and AI Enablement Officer
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