Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Job LocationsUS-CA-San FranciscoIDREQ-2026-1973

Category Engineering

Overview

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. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

Responsibilities

Building and Scaling APIs

Designing and building the APIs and microservices that power core customer experiences across Atlassian's product suite.

Build and architect distributed systems

Owning the Lifecycle

Driving complex projects autonomously, taking them all the way from initial technical design and architecture to launch and post-launch maintenance.

Architecture & Problem Solving

Solving complex architectural challenges, defining architectural standards, and evaluating trade-offs between performance, robustness, and space/time complexity.

Infrastructure & Reliability

Configuring monitoring and telemetry for backend services, building CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring that features are built with high reliability and fault tolerance in mind.

Code Quality & Maintenance

Leading thorough, meaningful code reviews, writing detailed documentation, and tackling complex bug fixes—especially those posing a high risk to the system.

Cross-Team Collaboration

Partnering with other engineering, product, and platform teams to handle company-wide initiatives that span multiple projects and codebases.

Mentorship

Setting standards for best practices and actively mentoring more junior members of the engineering team.

Compensation

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.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Pay Ranges

In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A

$150,300 - $196,225

Zone B

$135,270 - $176,603

Zone C

$124,749 - $162,867

Qualifications

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.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.

In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.