Backend Software Engineer - Identity

Atlassian Corp.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Paid volunteer days

Job summary

At Atlassian, engineers design, build, and operate core identity services. You will contribute from design to deployment, maintaining SRE practices, and mentoring peers. The role emphasizes secure, scalable, and efficient software in a fast-paced, global SaaS environment.

The company highlights equitable compensation and flexible work arrangements, with options for remote or hybrid work and potential bonuses and equity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, CE, Data Analytics Eng or related field.
• 3 years of related work experience.
• Experience with GoLang, Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, or Scala.
• Microservices architecture and extensible REST APIs.
• Cloud experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, or Cassandra.
• Algorithms, data structures, systems design, and distributed systems.
• Delivering software in Agile environments.

Skills

GoLang

Java

Python

Kotlin

Scala

Microservices

REST APIs

Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Databases (Oracle, Postgres, DynamoDB,

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Analytics Engineering, or related field

Job description

Engineering | San Francisco, United States | Remote, Remote

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

“Drive creative improvements across Atlassian's engineering organization. Design, build, and operate core identity services while delivering features end-to-end — from authoring technical designs and implementing services to creating robust tests, deploying via CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring SLOs. Help maintain operational excellence through on-call participation, incident response, and post-incident reviews. Develop automation to minimize manual toil. Mentor peers, conduct design and code reviews, enhance documentation, and improve the overall developer experience. Champion security best practices, perform threat modeling, and embed privacy-by-design principles into our authorization workflows.

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.

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.

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

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Analytics Engineering, or a related field, and three (3) years of related work experience.

Must have three (3) years of experience with/in:

Software development using GoLang, Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, or Scala programming languages

Microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs

SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands on experience with public or private cloud offerings e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure

Database technology such as RDBMS (Oracle or Postgres), or NoSQL (DynamoDB or Cassandra)

Algorithms, data structures, systems design, and distributed systems concepts (e.g., consistency, partitioning, caching)

Delivering software in Agile environments

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.

In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.

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