Senior Systems Engineer - CPR Team

Working at AtlassianAtlassian can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Assuming you have eligible working rights and a sufficient time zone overlap with your team, you can choose to work remotely or from an office (unless it’s necessary for your role to be performed in the office). Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.To help our teams work together effectively, this role is fully remote, but requires you to be located close to (GMT+10) AEST.We're looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering team and cloud platform.You'll be part of the Continuous PaaS Recovery (CPR) Team and report to an Engineering Manager. The Continuous PaaS Recovery Team (CPR) team is part of the wider Atlassian Cloud Infrastructure organisation. We specialise in building and running the lowest level provisioning systems (Pillars) that construct the Atlassian Cloud Infrastructure Platform. We also specialise in monitoring and preventing potentially dangerous scenarios such as circular dependencies in infrastructure. These are mission critical services solving technically challenging problems over a wide domain.

What you'll do:

• Drive large, complex projects autonomously, from technical design to launch
• Tackle complex architecture challenges, apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
• Partner across engineering teams to tackle company-wide initiatives
• Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Senior Systems Engineer.
• Lead code reviews & documentation as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems
• Mentor more junior engineers in the team to share learnings and build expertise

Your background:

• 5+ years experience building and developing systems
• Experience with one or more prominent languages such as Typescript, GoLang, or Python
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience in observability solution (e.g. SignalFX, Splunk)
• Deep level understanding and experience managing, troubleshooting and monitoring Linux servers
• Knowledge of container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• 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, TDD, Mobbing)
• Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time
• Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions

Our perks & benefitsTo support you at work and play, our perks and benefits include ample time off, an annual education budget, paid volunteer days, and so much more.About AtlassianThe world’s best teams work better together with Atlassian. From medicine and space travel, to disaster response and pizza deliveries, Atlassian software products help teams all over the planet. At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team.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.To learn more about our culture and hiring process, explore our Candidate Resource Hub.