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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

We're searching for a Senior Engineering Manager to join Atlassian.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll be a technical leader and people manager, responsible for guiding the team to technical decisions for production services, helping prioritize and organize the team's work, and providing career growth and mentorship opportunities to your team.

You will manage a group of Backend Software Engineeris and work closely with your architecture and product management counterparts to build systems that help power Atlassian's infrastructure and ensure it is secure, reliable and compliant.

We're looking for people who want to write the future and who believe that we can accomplish so much more together.

In this role, you will:

• Lead, hire and grow a team of high performing engineers including technical leaders

• Work with leaders across the organization and Principal Engineers/Architects to guide the technical roadmap for scaling and evolving the services

• Accountable for reliability, security, performance and scale of all the services you own

• Work with teams across the company to drive adoption of services you own

• Drive cultural change through technical excellence, quality and efficiency

• Support teams in driving large projects with complex dependencies and multiple stakeholders

• Partner across engineering teams to tackle company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects

• Help uplift Atlassian’s cloud security, reliability and compliance footprint

On your first day, we'll expect you to have:

• A track record building and leading high-performing software development teams in a technical capacity

• Experience supporting the growth and development of team members including performance management

• Strong organizational, contribution, communication and project management skills

• The ability to drive technical excellence, pushing innovation and quality

• You’re able to spar with senior engineers on systems design, pulling from your background as a hands-on engineer.

• Familiarity with agile software development methodologies

• A strong customer mindset, and a passion to help your team better understand and support the needs of their customers

• An ability to be able to pivot from the "big picture" and zoom in on the detail, as required

• Experience with large scale distributed systems and microservices at scale using cloud-provider-based infrastructure

• Proficiency in containerized workloads and cluster management software like Kubernetes

• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Golang, C++, Python, Java (or similar)

Experience in the following is preferred:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience).

• Experience leading remote, geographically-spread teams

• Familiarity with product management practices

• Experience in managing cloud services

• Experience in containerized workloads and cluster managers like Kubernetes

• Operational experience leading teams responsible for running mission-critical production services

Our perks & benefits

Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.

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 that 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 go.atlassian.com/crh.