The role involves building and shipping features for Bitbucket Pipelines, mentoring teammates, and ensuring high-performing backend services with a focus on scalability and performance.
Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. 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 in Australia or New Zealand.
We're looking for a Software Engineer who has experience with Kubernetes to join our team focused on delivering improvements to the Bitbucket Pipelines platform.
Your future team
Bitbucket Pipelines is a fast-growing product in Atlassian, utilising lightweight Kata VMs in Kubernetes, and Java-based services for orchestration and provisioning.
Bitbucket Pipelines permits you to work with the latest in infrastructure technology, applying your knowledge of Software Engineering and Infrastructure principles to deliver secure, fast, interactive customer experiences.
In this role, you will:
Your background:
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. 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 in Australia or New Zealand.
We're looking for a Software Engineer who has experience with Kubernetes to join our team focused on delivering improvements to the Bitbucket Pipelines platform.
Your future team
Bitbucket Pipelines is a fast-growing product in Atlassian, utilising lightweight Kata VMs in Kubernetes, and Java-based services for orchestration and provisioning.
Bitbucket Pipelines permits you to work with the latest in infrastructure technology, applying your knowledge of Software Engineering and Infrastructure principles to deliver secure, fast, interactive customer experiences.
In this role, you will:
- Build and ship features and capabilities daily in a highly scalable, cross-geo distributed environment;
- Be part of an amazingly open and collaborative work environment with other experienced engineers, architects, product managers, and designers;
- Review code with best practices of readability, testing patterns, documentation, reliability, security, and performance considerations in mind;
- Mentor and level up the skills of your teammates by sharing your expertise in knowledge-sharing sessions;
- Ensure complete visibility, error reporting, and monitoring of high-performing backend services;
- Participate in Agile software development, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, team retrospectives, and show-and-tell demo sessions;
- You will report directly to your Engineering Manager.
Your background:
- 8+ years of experience in building and developing backend applications;
- Experience in crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant RESTful microservices;
- Proficiency in any modern programming language (Java, Kotlin, Go, Scala, or Python);
- Experience with container and orchestration technologies, specifically Kubernetes, Docker or ContainerD. (2+ years);
- Fluency in any database technology (for example, RDBMS like Oracle or Postgres or NoSQL like DynamoDB or Cassandra);
- A functional knowledge of Compute Infrastructure (Linux, Networking, etc)
- Broad knowledge and understanding of the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (AWS, GAE, Azure);
Top Skills
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Azure
Cassandra
Docker
DynamoDB
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Go
Java
Kotlin
Kubernetes
Linux
Oracle
Postgres
Python
Scala
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