Backend Software Engineer

Engineering | Canada, Canada | Remote, Remote



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.

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

What You'll Do:

• 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, 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 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

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.

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

In Canada, for this role, our current base pay range for new hires is:

Canada: CA$117,900 - CA$153,925

Your Background:

• 1- 3+ years experience building and developing backend applications
• Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
• Experience crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant RESTful micro-services
• Proficiency in any modern object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go, Scala, Python, etc.)
• Fluency in any one database technology (e.g. RDBMS like Oracle or Postgres and/or NoSQL like DynamoDB or Cassandra)
• Real passion for collaboration and strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Broad knowledge and understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience of public cloud offerings (AWS, GAE, Azure)
• Familiarity with cloud architecture patterns and an engineering discipline to produce software with quality

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

Client-provided location(s): Canada

Job ID: Atlassian-27794

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-11-02T20:11:18