Principal Backend Engineer - Remote, Tech Leadership

Atlassian; Sydney; Remote; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Paid volunteer days

Job summary

Atlassian is seeking a Principal Backend Software Engineer in Australia to drive architecture, mentor engineers, and deliver high-impact backend solutions across Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket. You will influence technical decisions, design scalable systems, and lead complex projects with broad cross-team collaboration.

You will work in a flexible environment where you can choose to work office, home, or hybrid arrangements, with a focus on building cloud-first experiences for customers

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in multiple hands-on software/technology leadership roles, with end-to-end responsibility through the software development lifecycle.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably Computer Science or equivalent).
• Expertise with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, or Scala.
• Experience with public cloud offerings (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time.
• Mentoring other engineers and influencing decision-makers.
• Customer impact considered in technical decisions.
• Experience in Developer Experience or Developer Productivity.
• Proficiency in Java or NodeJS; experience in at least one additional language.
• Experience in CI and CD.

Responsibilities

• Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch.
• Deliver solutions used by other teams and products.
• Determine plans of attack on large projects.
• Tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards.
• Lead code reviews and documentation; fix high-risk problems.
• Set the standard for thorough, meaningful code reviews.
• Partner across Engineering teams on company-wide initiatives.
• Transfer depth of knowledge to excel as a Software Engineer; mentor juniors.

Skills

Java

Python

Kotlin

Go

Scala

NodeJS

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Jenkins

Job description

Atlassian is seeking a Principal Backend Software Engineer in Australia to drive architecture, mentor engineers, and deliver high-impact backend solutions across Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket. You will influence technical decisions, design scalable systems, and lead complex projects with broad cross-team collaboration.

You will work in a flexible environment where you can choose to work office, home, or hybrid arrangements, with a focus on building cloud-first experiences for customers