Backend Software Engineer - Identity

Atlassian; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 177,000 - 216,000; Full time

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Job summary

Atlassian is seeking a software engineer to drive identity services across its engineering org. The role delivers features end-to-end—from design to tests and deployment—while maintaining security, privacy, and high availability.

You will mentor peers, review designs, and improve documentation to enhance the developer experience. Remote-friendly, open to candidates with strong cloud and distributed systems backgrounds.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Analytics Engineering, or a related field.
• Three (3) years of related work experience.
• Experience with Go, Java, Python, Kotlin, Scala, and related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Drive creative improvements across Atlassian's engineering organization, design, build, and operate core identity services.
• Deliver features end-to-end from design to testing and deployment, with monitoring of SLOs.
• Mentor peers, conduct design and code reviews, improve documentation, and enhance developer experience.
• Champion security best practices, perform threat modeling, and embed privacy-by-design in authorization workflows.
• Participate in on-call incidents and post-incident reviews.
• Develop automation to minimize manual toil.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Kotlin

Scala

REST APIs

Cloud platforms

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Cassandra

CI/CD

Job description

Overview

Working at Atlassian

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.

Responsibilities

”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.

40 hrs/week, Mon-Fri, 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Salary: $196,600/yr.

Compensation

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.

Qualifications

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

100% Telecommuting permitted.

Please email resume to: [e-mail] and must reference Job code: "CA012" to be considered.”

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.

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.