Site Reliability Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 3, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 2, 2026. Atlassian scores A on the Alion truth index.
Overview
We are looking for an engineer who is passionate about scaling Cloud services to join our growing SRE team. The SRE team owns the infrastructure, tooling and automation that Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket Clouds run on, and has a deep understanding of how Atlassian products leverage cloud infrastructure to meet customer reliability expectations.
We'd love it if you had an understanding of modern Cloud infrastructure, programming expertise, operational experience and a desire to change the status quo. We're looking for an engineer who can analyse and help improve our services and processes to get us to an even higher level of reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Responsibilities
On your first day, we'll expect you to have:
1+ years experience operating high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed software in production: building monitoring, tweaking dashboards, defining alerts, writing runbooks, etc.
1+ years of hands on experience with public cloud offerings.
Familiarity with Unix / Linux operating systems.
Strong emphasis to debug, improve code, and automate routine tasks.
Backend engineering experience in one or more prominent languages such as Java, Go or Python.
Strong communication skills in written and verbal forms, and an ability to communicate complex technical issues to a range of technical and non-technical audiences (management, peers, clients).
Qualifications
It would be great, but not mandatory if you had:
Experience in EC2, ASG, Caches, SQS or equivalent in GCP / Azure.
Experience in datastores (RDBMS, time-series-database, NoSql, search, analytics).
Experience in microservice architecture.
Experience building web-services and clients using REST/GraphQL.
Expertise in JVM, Garbage Collection, and Performance Tuning.
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.
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This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
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.
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