Principal Software Engineer, Anti Abuse

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. This is a remote position. To help our teams work together effectively, this role requires you to be located in India.
We're looking for a Principal Backend Software Engineer to join our team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams.

• You'll be part of the Trust Engineering (Anti-Abuse) Team and report to a Senior Engineering Manager.
• We have teams in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, and this will be our expansion to India. This team is responsible for building and operating mature platforms/software systems to improve the entire company's security and trust & safety posture.
• If you are passionate about improving security, trust & safety, and combating abuse, this role presents a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact!

What you'll do

• Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch
• Deliver solutions that are used by other teams and products
• Determine plans-of-attack on large projects
• Solve complex architecture challenges, apply architectural standards and use them on new projects
• Become subject matter expert in your domain (anti-abuse and trust engineering) and amplify your knowledge across the company
• Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
• Lead code reviews & documentation as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems
• Set the standard for thorough, meaningful code reviews
• Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
• Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Software Engineer
• Mentor more junior members of the larger team
• Lead abuse incidents and guide product and platform engineering teams on best practices that your team helps to define
• Write automation and rules for detecting and responding to abuse on our platform

Your background

• 10+ years experience in multiple hands-on software/technology leadership roles, with end-to-end responsibility through the software development lifecycle
• Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
• Expertise with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, or Scala is required - Go preferred
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure) - AWS preferred
• Experience crafting and implementing well-tested, highly scalable and performant micro-services and/or other distributed systems
• Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time
• Practice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision makers throughout the organization
• Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions

If you've got these skills, even better

• Experience in Developer Experience or Developer Productivity
• Experience in building services to improve security
• Experience in trust & safety or anti-abuse practices, processes and building services to improve trust posture
• Experience in enhancing SDLC to improve security or safety or products
• Experience in building highly available and reliable distributed services in AWS in multi-regional environments
• Experience in detection and response capabilities
• Experience in file scanning capabilities
• Proficiency in Go, Python, Java and TypeScript
• Experience in CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment)
• Data engineering and analytics experience
• Understanding of cybersecurity principles, threat landscape, and best practices

Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
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 .