Atlassian
Senior Backend Software Engineer - Platform
$149K–$235K
Seattle, United States +4 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, United States
Remote, Remote
San Francisco, United States
Austin, United States
New York, United States
About the job
Builds and operates shared networking platform services that route and protect traffic across Atlassian’s cloud infrastructure and products.
What you'll do
- Design, build, operate, and improve reliable, high-throughput backend services and shared networking capabilities.
- Own projects from requirements and design through testing, safe rollout, production support, and measurement.
- Collaborate with partner teams and mentor engineers through reviews and knowledge sharing.
What they ask for
- Production experience independently delivering and operating backend services at scale.
- Strong skills in one or more of Java, Kotlin, Go or Python.
- Sound understanding of networking protocols, distributed systems, microservices, HTTP and REST APIs.
- Experience debugging production issues with observability tools and using automated testing and continuous delivery.
Nice to have
- Experience with API and traffic management, rate limiting, authentication, or service-to-service connectivity.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes.
Pay
Zone A: $180,000 - $235,000 USD base salary; Zone B: $162,000 - $211,500 USD base salary; Zone C: $149,400 - $195,050 USD base salary
Tools
Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker
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