Remote Principal Backend Software Engineer Job in San Francisco, CA Atlassian

Who you are

• 10+ years experience in multiple hands-on software/technology leadership roles with end-to-end responsibility through the software development lifecycle
• Bachelor's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
• Expertise with one or more prominent languages such as Java Python Kotlin Go or Scala is required
• Understanding of SaaS PaaS IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g. AWS GCP or Azure)
• Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness robustness performance space and time
• Practice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision makers throughout the organization
• Consideration of customer impact when making technical decisions

Desirables

• Experience in Developer Experience
• Experience in Developer Productivity
• Proficiency in Java
• Proficiency in NodeJS
• Experience in additional language
• Experience in CI
• Experience in CD

What the job involves

• Regularly unblock challenges faced in the software development cycle from technical design to launch
• Create solutions that are used by other teams and products
• Determine plans-of-attack on large projects
• Routinely solve complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
• Lead code reviews and documentation and take on complex bug fixes especially on high-risk problems
• Set the standard for meaningful code reviews
• Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide projects
• Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Software Engineer
• Mentor more junior members of the team