Senior Engineering Manager

Senior Engineering Manager

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineering Manager (M60) at Atlassian, you are a proven people leader with deep technical capabilities who can understand, influence, and drive complex technical and architectural decisions. You will lead an engineering team (typically across multiple workstreams/scrum teams), partnering closely with Product Management, Design, and Principal Engineers to deliver scalable, reliable, and customer-centric software.

In this role, you will get to:

• Build & Grow High-Performing Teams: Lead, coach, and mentor a team of talented engineers across different experience levels. Support their career development, foster a healthy, inclusive, and high-ownership team culture, and drive recruitment to scale the team.

• Drive Delivery & Strategic Execution: Own the end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-stream projects. Translate broader product vision and strategy into actionable technical roadmaps, milestones, and delivery plans while effectively managing dependencies and risks.

• Shape Technical Strategy & Architecture: Partner with Architects, Tech Leads, and Senior ICs to guide architectural decisions, evaluate trade-offs (scalability, reliability, performance, cost, and velocity), and ensure sustainable platform and system design.

• Champion Engineering & Operational Excellence: Set high standards for software craftsmanship, code quality, testing, CI/CD, and system observability. Drive operational rigor, healthy on-call practices, SLI/SLO adherence, and proactive technical debt / toil reduction.

• Cross-Functional & Cross-Geo Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, and partner engineering teams across global time zones to ensure alignment, clear communication, and high-impact business outcomes.

• Navigate Ambiguity: Bring structure, clarity, and direction to complex, evolving problem spaces, empowering your team to execute effectively with high autonomy.

Qualifications

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

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.

In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.

Experience Level

Senior Level