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Atlassian offers flexible work options (office, home, or hybrid) and can hire anywhere there is a legal entity, with Australia and New Zealand roles eligible from any location if there is sufficient timezone overlap. The company is seeking a Principal Backend Software Engineer to focus on delivering creative improvements for engineering teams. The role is part of Atlassian's plan to build a world-class, empowered engineering organization that supports AI initiatives and the cloud transition across Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket. Responsibilities include tackling the largest and most complex problems from design to launch, delivering solutions used by other teams, planning large projects, addressing architectural challenges, leading code reviews and documentation, handling high-risk bug fixes, setting standards, and mentoring junior team members. The position also requires transferring depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a software engineer and collaborating across engineering teams on company-wide initiatives.

Atlassian's mission is to unleash the potential of every team, with products like Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket that support collaboration across diverse teams and industries, as demonstrated by NASA and Cochlear. The role sits in the Central AI Org, specifically the AI & ML Platform team, which aims to drive AI innovation, deliver seamless AI experiences, and build horizontal AI capabilities and infrastructure across all Atlassian products, including a centralized search, Q&A, and conversational AI system, while exploring AI solutions beyond the Atlassian ecosystem. The AI & ML Platform team seeks to democratize AI/ML by creating productive, reliable tools that enable development, deployment, measurement, and operation of AI experiences, integrating with the Atlassian Data Platform and adhering to security and data usage policies for a smooth user experience. Atlassian offers flexible work arrangements (office, home, or hybrid) and hires in any country where it has a legal entity, giving employees control to support personal goals and priorities. As a Senior Machine Learning System Engineer, you will help develop core infrastructure for engineers and data scientists to build, train, evaluate, deploy, and manage ML models and pipelines, collaborate with Jira and Confluence teams, curate datasets, fine-tune open-source or proprietary LLMs, lead projects from design to launch, deliver cross-team AI features, and mentor junior engineers.

Atlassian offers flexible work locations—office, home, or hybrid—and hires in any country with a legal entity, with Australia and New Zealand roles requiring sufficient timezone overlap. They’re looking for Senior Software Engineers for Sydney teams (Jira Server, Jira Cloud, Growth) who will take high responsibility, mentor others, and serve as a role model. The company values learning and adaptability; while Java is central, their stack includes Kotlin, Golang, Python, and Ruby, and they hire engineers who can learn new technologies. In interviews, you can code in the language you’re best at to showcase your abilities. The role involves driving large, autonomous projects from design to launch, tackling architecture challenges, leading code reviews and documentation, fixing high-risk bugs, partnering across teams on company-wide initiatives, and mentoring juniors while leveraging your knowledge to excel as a Java developer.

At Atlassian, employees can work in an office, from home, or a hybrid arrangement, and the company hires in any country where it has a legal entity. Atlassian aims to unleash the potential of every team with products like Jira Software, Confluence, and Jira Service Management, used by Fortune 500 companies and many others worldwide. The Mid-Market sales team in ANZ focuses on identifying cloud-first opportunities, cross-sell and user expansion, and nurturing customer relationships while providing feedback to product and engineering. The role requires close collaboration with Channel Partners, Account Managers, Solution Engineers, and Deal Desk to deliver a seamless customer experience and strong customer success, guided by Atlassian values. Key responsibilities include developing and executing account plans to grow revenue in ANZ, building trusted customer relationships, coordinating internal teams for a smooth deployment, maintaining forecasts and CRM hygiene, and traveling occasionally across the ANZ region for meetings and events.

Zendesk is hiring a high-performing Commercial Account Executive in New Zealand to expand its mid-market footprint with AI-powered customer experience solutions. The role focuses on acquiring new customers and expanding existing partnerships, driving top-line revenue, and managing multi-stakeholder sales cycles to achieve and exceed quotas. Responsibilities include acting as a trusted advisor on AI-enabled CX tools, cross-selling and upselling advanced products, running solution demos and proofs of concept, and collaborating with Solutions Engineers, Marketing, and Customer Success. Requirements include 5-8+ years of B2B SaaS sales, a proven track record of quota attainment, ability to navigate complex mid-market cycles, and proficiency with tools like Salesforce, Outreach, Clari, Seismic, and Looker, plus strong negotiation and executive-facing skills and willingness to travel. Zendesk highlights its mission, hybrid work model, commitment to diversity and inclusion, transparency about potential AI screening of applications, and offers reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.