Site Reliability Engineer Intern

Atlassian

Site Reliability Engineer Intern

To help unleash the potential of every team

Why Atlassian
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G’day, we’re Atlassian. We make tools like Jira and Trello that are used by thousands of teams worldwide. And we’re serious about creating amazing products, practices, and open work for all teams.

About the role
Responsibilities

Your future team Site Reliability is a rapidly growing group within the organisation. We are in the process of building our teams, tools, and systems as part of Atlassian's mission to build the best SaaS services in the world. Site Reliability Engineering is at the core of learning for the company, enabling Atlassian to go fast by providing real time feedback on production systems. We work side by side with the product family and platform developers to maintain and improve services and performance.

This is a truly exciting team to join - we are currently or are planning to be involved with every technical team across Atlassian! This program is open to penultimate year university students with Australian or New Zealand Citizenship or Permanent Residency. The internship dates are late November 2025 to late February 2026, full-time for 12 weeks.

As an intern, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Work on our production systems which serve millions of customers worldwide. If they fail, you'll have the skills and the quick-decision-making ability to deal with pings, pages, queries, and problems.
• Investigate and really sink your teeth into why something didn't work out the way it should! From gaining deep technical knowledge to working on automation, monitoring, and virtualised delivery systems, your opportunities for work and play at Atlassian are endless. We guarantee you’ll never be bored!

Qualifications

Your background:

• Be in your penultimate year of a Bachelors or Masters program, graduating by January 2027
• Experience programming in Python, Java, Linux, AWS is preferred
• Proven communication skills with team members near and far
• An interest into industry trends (technology, methods and tooling)
• Real passion for scripting - we don't want you doing repetitive work!

What you'll be responsible for

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  Testing and QA

  Ensure high quality work by testing code meets the requirements

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  Backend application development

  Develop, test, and maintain software applications

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  Frontend Application Development

  Develop, test, and maintain the user-side elements of a website or app

Skills you'll need

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  Collaboration

  Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals

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  Numerical problem solving

  Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems

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  Attention to detail

  Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables