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Whatever your preference-working from home, an office, or in between- you can choose the place that's best for your work and your lifestyle.\nWe're looking for a Principal Backend Software Engineer to join our team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams.\nYour future team\nTo be a 100-year company, we are proudly building a world-class engineering organization composed of empowered teams that are equipped with the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers.\nEngineering at Atlassian prioritizes initiatives that advance AI and support our customers transition to the cloud while consistently delivering maximum value through our core product suite - Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.\nWe seek individuals who are eager to shape the future and believe in the power of collaboration to achieve extraordinary results together.\nIn this role, you'll get the chance to:\nRegularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch\n\nDeliver solutions that are used by other teams and products\n\nDetermine plans-of-attack on large projects\n\nRoutinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects\n\nLead code reviews & documentation as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems\n\nSet the standard for thorough, meaningful code reviews\n\nPartner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects\n\nTransfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Software Engineer\n\nMentor more junior members of the team\n\nYour background:\n10+ years experience in multiple hands-on software/technology leadership roles, with end-to-end responsibility through the software development lifecycle.\n\nBachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience).\n\nExpertise with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, or Scala is required.\n\nUnderstanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure).\n\nKnowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time.\n\nPractice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision makers throughout the organization.\n\nConsiders the customer impact when making technical decisions.\n\nExperience in Developer Experience or Developer Productivity.\n\nProficiency in Java or NodeJS.\n\nExperience in at least one additional language.\n\nExperience in CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment)\n\nBenefits & Perks\nAtlassian 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 .\nAbout Atlassian\nAt 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.\nWe 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.\nTo provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. 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