Senior Software Engineer - Trusted Data Platform
Atlassian · Posted Oct 28
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
The Trusted Data Platform team at Atlassian is focused on high-performance, scalable, and resilient backend storage solutions on AWS. The role works on distributed storage systems, APIs, and backend services for mission-critical applications with low-latency, high-throughput, and fault-tolerant data storage. The Senior Software Engineer will design, optimize, and troubleshoot storage infrastructure while collaborating with principal engineers, architects, SREs, and product teams.
What you will do
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and optimizing high-performance, scalable, and resilient backend storage solutions on AWS cloud infrastructure.
- You will be responsible for developing distributed storage systems, APIs, and backend services that 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 8+ years of experience in backend software development
- Proficiency in Kotlin or Java for backend development
- Experience building high-performance, scalable microservices and APIs
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, gRPC, and event-driven architectures
- Hands-on experience with AWS S3, DynamoDB, EBS, EFS, FSx, and Glacier
- Knowledge of AWS IAM, KMS, and data access policies for secure storage solutions
- Understanding of AWS networking (VPC, PrivateLink, Route 53) for optimizing storage performance
- Solid understanding of distributed databases, storage consistency models, a...
Benefits and support
- Choice of work location (office, home, or hybrid)
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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