Senior Software Engineer, Teamwork Graph Externalization (AGG)

Atlassian; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlassian in Sydney seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build Teamwork Graph externalization and the API foundation connecting Atlassian products. You will code primarily in Kotlin and TypeScript, with some Rust, developing backend services and developer experiences for external APIs.

You will own projects end-to-end, collaborate with Product and Design, and shape scalable, secure systems while balancing usability, performance, and cost.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend applications and services.
• Experience shipping customer-facing or developer-facing products.
• Strong programming skills in Kotlin, Java, or TypeScript and designing APIs.
• Experience with distributed systems, databases, cloud infrastructure, and performance.
• Experience owning features from design to production delivery including testing and monitoring.
• Ability to work with Product/Design to clarify requirements and tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Own technical projects from problem definition and design through implementation, launch, and operation.
• Build APIs, developer tools, and backend services for Teamwork Graph externalization.
• Design API contracts, error handling, and documentation to ease integration.
• Build and operate scalable services with strong testing, availability, latency, and observability.
• Use feedback and metrics to improve product quality and adoption.
• Collaborate across teams to resolve dependencies and share capabilities.

Skills

Backend engineering

Kotlin

TypeScript

APIs design

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Tools

GraphQL

MCP

CLI

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Teamwork Graph Externalization (AGG)

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong product instincts and backend engineering experience to build Teamwork Graph externalization products.

The team builds the API foundation that connects Atlassian products and makes Teamwork Graph available to customers, developers, and AI agents. We own the Atlassian GraphQL Gateway and build Teamwork Graph’s external API capabilities across Model Context Protocol (MCP), CLI, and direct APIs, along with the shared metering and monetization capabilities behind them.

In this role, you’ll turn connected work context into products that developers and customers can easily adopt and use. You’ll work closely with Product, Design, and other engineers to understand customer problems, shape solutions, and take them from early prototypes through production launch and iteration.

We’re looking for someone who cares about both the product experience and the systems behind it. You should be comfortable designing intuitive APIs, building reliable backend services, and using customer feedback and production data to decide what to improve next. You’ll work primarily in Kotlin and TypeScript, with some Rust, building the backend services and developer experiences behind Teamwork Graph’s external APIs.

Partner with Product, Design, and engineering peers to shape Teamwork Graph externalization features for developers, customer applications, and AI agents.

Translate customer needs into technical designs, making practical tradeoffs across usability, delivery speed, reliability, security, and cost.

Contribute to the team’s technical direction, identifying opportunities for shared capabilities and consistent experiences across MCP, CLI, and direct APIs.

Strategy

• Partner with Product, Design, and engineering peers to shape Teamwork Graph externalization features for developers, customer applications, and AI agents.
• Translate customer needs into technical designs, making practical tradeoffs across usability, delivery speed, reliability, security, and cost.
• Contribute to the team’s technical direction, identifying opportunities for shared capabilities and consistent experiences across MCP, CLI, and direct APIs.

Execution

• Own technical projects from problem definition and design through implementation, launch, and ongoing operation.
• Build APIs, developer tools, and backend services that make Teamwork Graph useful in customer applications and agentic workflows.
• Design clear API contracts, useful error handling, documentation, and examples that make integration and adoption straightforward.
• Build and operate scalable services with strong standards for testing, availability, latency, authorization, and observability.
• Use customer feedback, experiments, evaluations, and production metrics to improve product quality and understand adoption and usage.
• Work across team boundaries to resolve dependencies, improve shared infrastructure, and deliver features in manageable increments.

People

• Mentor engineers through design discussions, code reviews, pairing, and constructive feedback.
• Improve the team’s engineering practices, tooling, and documentation so others can build and operate services effectively.
• Contribute to a collaborative team environment where people share ideas, challenge assumptions, and take ownership of outcomes.

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Minimum qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend applications and services.
• Experience shipping customer-facing or developer-facing products, with an understanding of how technical decisions affect usability, adoption, and customer value.
• Strong programming skills, with production experience in Kotlin, Java, or TypeScript, and a willingness to work across Kotlin and TypeScript. Experience designing APIs and building distributed systems, including practical knowledge of databases, cloud infrastructure, and service performance.
• Experience owning complex features or projects from technical design through production delivery, including testing, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated product judgment and experience working with Product and Design to clarify requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and improve solutions using feedback and data.
• Ability to work through ambiguity, coordinate with other teams, and communicate technical decisions clearly.
• Experience mentoring engineers and improving code quality through thoughtful reviews and engineering practices.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building developer platforms, public APIs, SDKs, CLIs, or third-party integrations.
• Experience with MCP, AI agents, tool use, or applications that use enterprise context and retrieval.
• Experience with Rust, particularly for CLIs, developer tooling, or performance-sensitive components.
• Familiarity with evaluating AI or agentic product quality through offline evaluations, experiments, and production signals.
• Experience with GraphQL, API gateways, or multi-tenant SaaS, including authentication, authorization, and API compatibility.
• Experience with usage instrumentation, metering, usage-based pricing, or billing.

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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