Seeking an expert Site Reliability Engineer to improve cloud services' reliability, performance, and cost efficiency through collaboration and technical innovation.
We are looking for a reliability expert who is passionate about scaling Cloud services to join our growing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams. You are someone who is aware of current industry trends (particularly those related to reliability) and who values working with a diverse set of partners, who can articulate the business impact of a problem and can also dive deep into the technical solution.
We'd love it if you brought a deep understanding of modern Cloud infrastructure, programming expertise, operational experience and a desire to change the status quo.
We're looking for an engineer who can analyse and help improve our services and processes to get us to an even higher level of reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency. You'll achieve this by crossing team and functional boundaries to advocate for reliability methodologies and will work with a variety of platform, product and SRE teams to both build reliability into our platform and drive adoption of those practices into our products. In other words, you'll be the driving force for change! You will report to a regional Senior Engineering Manager in SRE.
We'll expect you to have:
It would be great, but not mandatory if you had:
We'd love it if you brought a deep understanding of modern Cloud infrastructure, programming expertise, operational experience and a desire to change the status quo.
We're looking for an engineer who can analyse and help improve our services and processes to get us to an even higher level of reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency. You'll achieve this by crossing team and functional boundaries to advocate for reliability methodologies and will work with a variety of platform, product and SRE teams to both build reliability into our platform and drive adoption of those practices into our products. In other words, you'll be the driving force for change! You will report to a regional Senior Engineering Manager in SRE.
We'll expect you to have:
- Expert-level proficiency with 10+ years experience in one or more prominent languages such as Java, Go o r Python.
- Expert-level proficiency with 7+ years experience in public cloud offerings (with at least 2+ years specifically on GCP).
- Expert-level proficiency with 7+ years experience in operating high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed software in production: building monitoring into your code, tweaking dashboards, defining alerts, writing runbooks, etc.
- Excellent communication skills in written and verbal forms, and an ability to communicate complex technical issues to a range of technical and non-technical audiences (management, peers, clients).
- An ability and desire to mentor and coach engineers.
It would be great, but not mandatory if you had:
- Experience in datastores (RDBMS, time-series-database, NoSql, search, analytics).
- Experience in microservice architecture.
- Experience building web-services and clients using REST/GraphQL.
- Expertise in JVM, Garbage Collection, and Performance Tuning.
Top Skills
GCP
Go
GraphQL
Java
Python
Rest
Atlassian Austin, Texas, USA Office
Atlassian believes the future of work is distributed and offers our people the flexibility to help them do what’s important to them. And with few exceptions, we hire people anywhere we have a legal entity as long as they have eligible work rights and sufficient team time zone overlap.
Atlassian Austin, Texas, USA Office
303 Colorado St , Austin, TX, United States, 78701
Similar Jobs at Atlassian
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation
Lead AI initiatives by collaborating with data teams, building AI solutions, and enhancing business processes through analytics and automation.
Top Skills:
DatabricksForgePythonSQLStudioTableau
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation
As a Data Engineer, you'll build analytical data models, manage data pipelines, and evolve solutions to meet business needs within Atlassian's data engineering team.
Top Skills:
AirflowAWSFlinkHiveJavaKafkaPythonSparkSQL
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation
Lead the migration to a self-hosted Kafka infrastructure, manage Kafka clusters, and mentor a team of engineers in a multi-cloud environment.
Top Skills:
Apache KafkaAWSAzureGCPGoJavaKubernetesPython
What you need to know about the Austin Tech Scene
Austin has a diverse and thriving tech ecosystem thanks to home-grown companies like Dell and major campuses for IBM, AMD and Apple. The state’s flagship university, the University of Texas at Austin, is known for its engineering school, and the city is known for its annual South by Southwest tech and media conference. Austin’s tech scene spans many verticals, but it’s particularly known for hardware, including semiconductors, as well as AI, biotechnology and cloud computing. And its food and music scene, low taxes and favorable climate has made the city a destination for tech workers from across the country.
Key Facts About Austin Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 180,500; 13.7% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: Dell, IBM, AMD, Apple, Alphabet
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, hardware, cloud computing, software, healthtech
- Funding Landscape: $4.5 billion in VC funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Live Oak Ventures, Austin Ventures, Hinge Capital, Gigafund, KdT Ventures, Next Coast Ventures, Silverton Partners
- Research Centers and Universities: University of Texas, Southwestern University, Texas State University, Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Texas Advanced Computing Center

