Senior Software Engineer, Transactional Data Platform

Atlassian

Atlassian

Software Engineering
Sydney, NSW, Australia · Remote
Posted on Jan 13, 2025

Senior Software Engineer

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We are looking for a Strong and Driven Software Engineer in the Transactional Data Platform team. TDP is a Storage Platform that provides abstracted data stores to Atlassian services as an platform offering while providing compliance and optimisations out of the box. If Petabyte scale of data and platform engineering excites you the this role would be a good fit.


  • Drive large, complex projects autonomously, from technical design to launch

  • Tackle complex architecture challenges, apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects

  • Lead code reviews and documentation, as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems

  • Be an example for thorough, meaningful code reviews

  • Partner across engineering teams to tackle company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects

  • Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Java developer

  • Mentor junior members of the team


  • 3+ years experience building and developing backend applications.

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience).

  • Strong experience with JVM languages such as Java/Kotlin is required. Experience in Springboot is desirable.

  • Hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).

  • Fluency in any one database technology (e.g. RDBMS like Oracle or Postgres and/or NoSQL like DynamoDB or Cassandra).

  • Experience crafting and implementing well-tested, highly scalable and performant micro-services and/or other distributed systems.

  • Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies (e.g., XP, scrum).

  • Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time.

  • Practice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision makers throughout the organization.

  • Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions.