Atlassian

Software Engineer (Trust & Safety)

Job Locations AU-Sydney
ID REQ-2025-2179
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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

We have teams in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, India, and are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our team, experienced with improving security, trust & safety, and combating abuse, this role presents a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact!

You'll be part of the Australian Trust Engineering (Anti-Abuse) Team and report to a Senior Engineering Manager. This team is responsible for building and operating services and platforms that improve the entire company's security and trust & safety posture.

Responsibilities

What you'll do

  • Investigate and analyse behaviours, anomalies and abuse patterns

  • Write automation and rules for detecting and responding to abuse on our platform

  • Build and ship features and capabilities daily in highly scalable, cross-geo distributed environment

  • Be part of an amazing open and collaborative work environment with other experienced engineers, architects, technical program managers

  • Review and write code with best practices of readability, testing patterns, documentation, reliability, security, and performance considerations in mind

  • Contribute to address incidents and guide product and platform engineering teams on best practices that your team helps to define

  • Mentor and level up the skills of your teammates by sharing your expertise in formal and informal knowledge sharing sessions

  • Ensure full 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

Qualifications

Your background

  • 3+ years experience building and developing backend applications and/or platform capabilities, applying platform as a product mindset

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree

  • Proficiency in any modern object-oriented programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Java, Scala, etc.)

  • Fluency in any one database technology (e.g. RDBMS like Oracle or Postgres and/or NoSQL like DynamoDB or Cassandra)

  • Broad knowledge and understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience of public cloud offerings (AWS, GCP, Azure) - AWS preferred

  • Experience crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant RESTful micro-services, with a focus on operational excellence

  • Familiarity with cloud architecture patterns and an engineering discipline to produce software with quality

  • Real passion for collaboration and strong interpersonal and communication skills

You have expertise in one ore more of

  • Familiarity with security systems and trust & safety practices, processes

  • Experience working with compliance, privacy, trust & safety, security, infrastructure

  • Cloud platform/security experience

  • Understanding of cybersecurity principles, threat landscape, and best practices

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.

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