Senior Backend Software Engineer, Search & Smarts

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Atlassian is continuing to hire for all open roles with all interviewing and on-boarding done virtually due to COVID-19. Everyone new to the team, along with our current staff, will temporarily work from home until it is safe to return to our offices.

Atlassian is looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our new Search and Smarts team. As a Search Engineer at Atlassian, you will advance our mission to unleash the potential in every team by building a search platform for all our products.

Your work will impact millions of users including some of the leaders in their industries, now and for the next decade, as you define the foundations for how people and content are found to connect, collaborate, and accomplish amazing things.

This team is at their early stage, and your impact will be instrumental in determining the direction of the team. We're looking for someone who is familiar with the modern technology stacks, and have the hunger for keeping up to speed with all new technologies to come. This position offers a unique opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment by implementing cutting edge techniques to solve tough, yet unique problems.

Your daily responsibilities, you will be expected to:
-Pioneer the development of a new search platform for all Atlassian products.
-Be responsible for the search technology stack from top to bottom.
-Architecture and technical vision to keep it moving forward.
-Optimize all aspects of platform search, from indexing data from myriad sources to organizing and rationalizing results to provide ultimate clarity.
-As part of this team, contribute to ongoing feature development, specializing in search functionality and be the domain expert on search and related data storage, and retrieval technologies.
-Work effectively in a professional development environment including use of source control, unit testing, continuous build and integration
-Deployment via DevOps-style collaboration with infrastructure team.

On your first day, we expect you to have:

  • A Bachelor degree in an engineering discipline - bonus points for a Master's degree.
  • 3+ years experience as a Software Engineer.
  • Strong programming experience in Java or other object-oriented programming languages.
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or similar public cloud offerings.
  • Experience implementing high-performance RESTful microservices serving millions of requests every day.
  • Ability to independently work with minimal mentorship.
  • A positive outlook and happiness in continually learning, growing and sharing your technical skills.
  • It's great, but not required, if you have:

  • Expertise in any search technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, or Lucene
  • Experience in information retrieval, data mining, and machine learning.
  • Some knowledge of open source technologies in the PaaS/IaaS space.
  • Have experience building real-time data ingestion and event-processing pipelines.
  • More about our teams
    The Search and Smarts team focuses on making the Atlassian suite of products more straightforward and delightful to use, and we are growing fast. With 100 GB of data generated 24/7 production environment by our users, the team is in a unique position to load the Atlassian products with intelligent features and deliver on the company's mission to unleash the potential in every team. We are committed to building beautiful data products and leveraging the power of our data to bring the next generation of collaboration tools to our users so that they can do their best work and increase their productivity.

    More about our benefits

    Whether you work in an office or a distributed team, Atlassian is highly collaborative and yes, fun! To support you at work (and play) we offer some fantastic perks: ample time off to relax and recharge, flexible working options, five paid volunteer days a year for your favourite cause, an annual allowance to support your learning & growth, unique ShipIt days, a company paid trip after five years and lots more.

    More about Atlassian

    Creating software that empowers everyone from small startups to the who’s who of tech is why we’re here. We build tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Trello to help teams across the world become more nimble, creative, and aligned—collaboration is the heart of every product we dream of at Atlassian. From Amsterdam and Austin, to Sydney and San Francisco, we’re looking for people who want to write the future and who believe that we can accomplish so much more together than apart. At Atlassian, we’re committed to an environment where everyone has the autonomy and freedom to thrive, as well as the support of like-minded colleagues who are motivated by a common goal to: Unleash the potential of every team.

    Additional Information

    We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians is the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.

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