Senior Software Engineer

The job

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Job description

Engineering | Seattle, United States | Remote, Remote | Canada, Canada | San Francisco, United States | Mountain View, United States or 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.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Confluence AI group, you will build high-quality AI experiences that help teams create, discover, and collaborate on knowledge. You will work across the full stack, applying advances in AI to improve product quality, deepen user trust, and drive sustained adoption and growth. Partnering with product, design, analytics, and machine learning teams, you will turn emerging technologies into reliable, intuitive features that deliver lasting customer value.

Technical Ownership & Execution

• Own complex features from technical design and implementation through launch and ongoing improvement
• Build cohesive experiences across frontend interfaces, backend services, and AI integrations
• Contribute to architecture decisions, balancing delivery speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
• Deliver scalable, reliable software that meets performance, security, accessibility, and cost requirements

• Apply advances in generative AI, retrieval, agents, and evaluation to improve the usefulness, accuracy, and consistency of Confluence AI features
• Develop automated evaluations and representative test datasets to validate quality and prevent regressions
• Prototype and evaluate emerging technologies against concrete customer needs and measurable outcomes
• Collaborate with machine learning and platform engineers to improve grounding, context retrieval, orchestration, and safeguards
• Use production monitoring and user feedback to diagnose issues and continuously improve AI experiences

• Build intuitive experiences that make AI features easy to discover, understand, and use in everyday workflows
• Work with product, design, and analytics to identify and address barriers to adoption
• Instrument features to measure AI quality, activation, repeat usage, retention, and customer value
• Design and run experiments to assess how quality and usability improvements affect adoption and engagement
• Iterate on features to earn user trust and deliver recurring value

• Partner with product managers, designers, engineers, and data scientists to translate customer needs into practical technical solutions
• Coordinate with adjacent teams to integrate shared AI capabilities and resolve dependencies
• Communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, and experiment results clearly
• Contribute across frontend, backend, and AI integration boundaries to deliver complete customer experiences

• Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews, and technical guidance
• Improve team practices for testing, AI evaluation, observability, and software delivery
• Build reusable components and share approaches that help the team deliver more effectively
• Contribute to a culture of curiosity, collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning

• Independently break down ambiguous problems into achievable implementation plans
• Use prototypes, experiments, and data to reduce uncertainty and guide decisions
• Balance customer impact, technical complexity, risk, and cost when choosing solutions
• Identify opportunities for improvement and work with technical leaders to align them with the broader Confluence AI direction

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The state economy in brief

California is in the West region (Pacific division) and has 39,287,376 residents (the 1st largest of the 50 states and DC by population), with a median age of 37.9. Its economy produced about $4,438,822 million in the latest four quarters (BEA), 1st among states and DC, equal to $112,983 per resident.

Jobs and the labour market

The unemployment rate was 5.1% in 2026M09, which is 49th lowest of 51 (1st is the lowest). Employers had job openings equal to 3.6% of employment, 37th highest of 51, a measure of how hard it is to hire. The median wage across all occupations is $58,240 a year ($28.00 an hour), 14% above the national median ($58,240 against $50,980).

What people do and what it pays

The occupations with the most jobs in California are Home Health and Personal Care Aides (970,150 jobs, median $34,320); Fast Food and Counter Workers (449,840 jobs, median $42,280); Retail Salespersons (376,460 jobs, median $38,440); Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand (355,500 jobs, median $44,710); Registered Nurses (338,940 jobs, median $140,270). Among occupations with at least 2,000 jobs, the best paid are Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers (median $353,900); Psychiatrists (median $353,500); General Internal Medicine Physicians (median $313,890). Compared with the nation, the state is most specialised in farming, fishing, and forestry (4.1 times the national share of workers) and healthcare support (1.5 times the national share of workers).

Cost of living, taxes and workplace rules

Prices are above the national average in California: the regional price parity is 110.7 against 100 for the whole country (51st lowest of 51). Median gross rent is $2,036 a month and the median household income $99,122, so a year of rent equals 24.6% of income; the median home value is $734,700. The state minimum wage is $16.90 (the higher of state and federal rates applies to most workers). State income tax on wages: Graduated, top rate 13.30%. It is not a right-to-work state, so union contracts can require fees from covered workers. It runs a state paid family and medical leave programme.

People and commuting

27.0% of residents were born abroad and 37.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Among workers, 65.7% drive alone, 2.9% use public transit and 17.2% work from home; 19.4% commute 45 minutes or more.

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