Cloud Network Engineer

Join to apply for the Cloud Network Engineer role at Atlassian . Overview We are looking for a Cloud Network Engineer who is passionate about scaling Cloud Networking services to join our Edge Networking team. The Edge Networking team owns the cloud infrastructure, tooling, and automation that enable global customers of Atlassian products like Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket to have a reliable network experience. The ideal candidate is a technical leader aware of current industry trends (particularly those related to networking, proxies, and reliability). You have experience working in teams that balance operational and project workloads and love to share your knowledge with others. 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. This role reports directly to the Senior Engineering Manager of Edge Networking. Working at Atlassian Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination. 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. Responsibilities Write code to automate and operate our large proxy fleets across multiple globally distributed regions. Respond to operational events, applying mitigations and identifying follow-up actions to increase reliability. Contribute to large projects delivering new networking features to unblock company‑wide features and projects. Design new network features and implementations. Investigate work to proactively improve security, reliability, and cost efficiency of our services. Contribute to mentoring and hiring. Qualifications 3+ years experience operating high‑availability, fault‑tolerant, scalable, distributed software in production – building monitoring, tweaking dashboards, defining alerts, writing run‑books, etc. 3+ years of hands‑on experience with public cloud offerings (AWS components like EC2, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, SQS, or equivalents in GCP / Azure). Understanding of Cloud Networking concepts like load balancers, proxies, and CDNs. Backend engineering experience in one or more prominent languages such as Python, Go, and Rust. Familiarity with Unix / Linux operating systems. Engagement to debug, improve code, and automate routine tasks. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and ability to communicate complex technical issues to a range of audiences. Ability and desire to mentor and coach engineers. Nice to have (but not mandatory): Experience in microservice architectures. Experience working with open‑source proxies like Envoy, Nginx, and Squid. Benefits & Perks Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family, and your community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and more. Learn more at 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 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr