Senior Architect - PaaS/SaaS Sydney Job

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As an architect at Atlassian you will join an engineering-led company and the award-winning leader in software development and collaboration tools with over 25000 customers. We're looking for a results-driven technical leader to help steer our OnDemand SAAS rocket ship. You'll be part of a team building software services, tackling reliability, availability and performance as we scale, and optimising how we deliver applications and services into an always-on, growing-like-mad environment. The ideal candidate will bring deep experience with large-scale offerings and all the challenges inherent to high-profile internet-facing services. This is both a leadership and hands-on position. Part thinker, designer, coder, writer, speaker, influencer, herder, teacher, mentor. What you'll do: As part of the hosted technology leadership team, help define the SAAS/PAAS strategy, services architecture, application decomposition, delivery approach, etc. Work closely with multiple teams building high performance "common" services utilised by all of our applications (e.g.; auth, identity, search, persistance...). Work closely with the infrastructure teams to drive scale, performance and availability of the delivered services and applications. Work closely with application teams on evolving architectures and approach. Work with Product Management to contribute to roadmaps and priorities for our hosted services offerings. Drive tactical and long term strategic initiatives. Deliver the present and future. Lead and mentor engineers and other architects. Proselytise. Who we're looking for: Extensive background in full-stack development, SOA architectures, API and protocol design, networking, internet topology, virtualisation. Solid experience with current PAAS and IAAS offerings (e.g., AWS/Beanstalk, Heroku, GAE, CouldFoundry, Docker, etc...). Deep understanding of high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable systems. Proven experience "fixing the plane while in flight" (not just greenfield solutions). Strong skills in software construction and integration patterns. Strong network of colleagues and advisors. This can't be your first time around the block. You're the right fit if: You thrive on the energy present in 24x7 services You are on top of the latest trends, but also see through the BS You go deep on technology You ask tough questions You recognise great software architecture You still love to code You are both principled and pragmatic You throw rocks at ivory towers You are fanatically data-driven You think 500ms is a long time You think 99% uptime sucks You hate maintenance windows You can debate ideas with both developers and non-technical people You naturally work cross functionally You communicate well in writing, and are a confident public speaker You are a great recruiter and ideally have a network of people who would follow you anywhere You love to teach as well as do Come and talk to us! Join a culture of openness and honesty, with no bullshit and no bureaucracy.

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As an architect at Atlassian you will join an engineering-led company and the award-winning leader in software development and collaboration tools with over 25000 customers. We're looking for a results-driven technical leader to help steer our OnDemand SAAS rocket ship. You'll be part of a team building software services, tackling reliability, availability and performance as we scale, and optimising how we deliver applications and services into an always-on, growing-like-mad environment. The ideal candidate will bring deep experience with large-scale offerings and all the challenges inherent to high-profile internet-facing services. This is both a leadership and hands-on position. Part thinker, designer, coder, writer, speaker, influencer, herder, teacher, mentor. What you'll do: As part of the hosted technology leadership team, help define the SAAS/PAAS strategy, services architecture, application decomposition, delivery approach, etc. Work closely with multiple teams building high performance "common" services utilised by all of our applications (e.g.; auth, identity, search, persistance...). Work closely with the infrastructure teams to drive scale, performance and availability of the delivered services and applications. Work closely with application teams on evolving architectures and approach. Work with Product Management to contribute to roadmaps and priorities for our hosted services offerings. Drive tactical and long term strategic initiatives. Deliver the present and future. Lead and mentor engineers and other architects. Proselytise. Who we're looking for: Extensive background in full-stack development, SOA architectures, API and protocol design, networking, internet topology, virtualisation. Solid experience with current PAAS and IAAS offerings (e.g., AWS/Beanstalk, Heroku, GAE, CouldFoundry, Docker, etc...). Deep understanding of high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable systems. Proven experience "fixing the plane while in flight" (not just greenfield solutions). Strong skills in software construction and integration patterns. Strong network of colleagues and advisors. This can't be your first time around the block. You're the right fit if: You thrive on the energy present in 24x7 services You are on top of the latest trends, but also see through the BS You go deep on technology You ask tough questions You recognise great software architecture You still love to code You are both principled and pragmatic You throw rocks at ivory towers You are fanatically data-driven You think 500ms is a long time You think 99% uptime sucks You hate maintenance windows You can debate ideas with both developers and non-technical people You naturally work cross functionally You communicate well in writing, and are a confident public speaker You are a great recruiter and ideally have a network of people who would follow you anywhere You love to teach as well as do Come and talk to us! Join a culture of openness and honesty, with no bullshit and no bureaucracy.

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