21 hours ago
Remote, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize scalable, resilient backend storage solutions, distributed storage systems, APIs, and backend services.
- Improve storage efficiency, data modeling, caching strategies, access patterns, performance, and cost optimization across AWS storage services.
- Contribute to infrastructure automation, security practices, monitoring, observability, high availability, and disaster recovery preparedness.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents involving data integrity, latency spikes, storage failures, and API bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with principal engineers, architects, SREs, product teams, data engineers, and infrastructure teams on technical roadmaps and architecture.
- Mentor junior engineers and participate in design reviews, architectural discussions, code reviews, testing, and technical documentation.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in backend software development.
- Proficiency with Kotlin or Java and experience building high-performance microservices and APIs.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, distributed databases, storage consistency models, caching, sharding, partitioning, load balancing, and event-driven architectures.
- Hands-on experience with AWS S3, DynamoDB, EBS, EFS, FSx, Glacier, IAM, KMS, VPC, PrivateLink, and Route 53.
- Experience with storage performance optimization, indexing, data retrieval latency, storage tiering, lifecycle policies, data deduplication, benchmarking, and monitoring.
- Experience implementing encryption at rest and in transit, access controls, high availability, backup strategies, disaster recovery, and multi-region replication.
- Experience with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or CDK for infrastructure management.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, or Jenkins.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes including EKS, and serverless solutions including Lambda and Fargate.
- Experience using observability and tracing tools and resolving production incidents in large-scale backend systems.
- Strong experience with code reviews, unit testing, API contract enforcement, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangement allowing eligible candidates in Australia to work remotely, from an office, or in a combination of both.
- Distributed-first company with virtual interviews and onboarding.
- Atlassians can work in any country where Atlassian has a legal entity.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSDockerGitHub ActionsGrafanaJavaJenkinsKotlinKubernetesPrometheusTerraform
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About Atlassian
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