[Hiring] Head of Engineering, Commerce Platform @Atlassian

Role Description

As the Head of Engineering for the Core Commerce Platform, you will be the primary architect and leader of Atlassian’s next-generation monetization engine. This is a high-stakes leadership role at the intersection of engineering excellence, financial integrity, and business transformation. You will lead a department of 50–70 engineers in India, tasked with evolving our legacy billing systems into a world-class, enterprise-scale platform that powers Atlassian’s multi-billion dollar revenue stream.

Your mission is to build a unified, multi-modal billing platform that seamlessly integrates traditional seat-based models with modern, value-based consumption models. This platform is the "monetization backbone" that converts every customer interaction—from a Jira seat to an AI-powered Rovo credit—into accurate, transparent, and compliant revenue.

Responsibilities

• Platform Modernization: Transition the Commerce Cloud Platform (CCP) from a seat-centric system to a flexible, meter-agnostic engine capable of handling high-concurrency usage events and complex financial settlements.
• Enterprise Readiness: Deliver "hardened" commerce capabilities for our largest customers, including aggregate quoting, threshold-based invoicing, and advanced credit management.
• Financial Integrity & Compliance: Ensure 100% accuracy in revenue recognition (MRR/ARR) and downstream finance integrations. You will own the systems that interface with Stripe and internal financial reporting tools.
• AI-Native Transformation: Drive the adoption of AI within the platform itself—leveraging AI for automated testing of complex commerce scenarios, anomaly detection in billing, and optimizing the "Usage Event → Invoice" pipeline.
• Operational Excellence: Manage Tier 1 external-facing services where downtime directly impacts Atlassian’s ability to transact. You will instill a culture of "zero-error" engineering and high-availability architecture.
• Executive Influencing: As a key leader in Commerce organization, you will represent the platform's roadmap to C-level stakeholders, ensuring engineering capacity aligns with Atlassian’s strategic monetization goals.

Qualifications

• Global Scale Leadership: 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role at a global, hyper-scale technology organization. You have successfully led large, multi-layered engineering departments (50+ people) through managers and senior technical leaders.
• Monetization & Billing Expertise: Deep domain expertise in building and scaling Enterprise-grade Billing, Payments, or Commerce Platforms. You have a proven track record of architecting systems that support diverse pricing models, including Seat-based, Usage/Consumption-based, Ramp, and Flex models.
• High-Stakes Execution: Experience managing Tier 1, business-critical services where system reliability and financial accuracy are paramount. You understand the rigor required to manage platforms that power billions in annual revenue with "zero-error" tolerance.
• Strategic Platform Transformation: Demonstrated success in leading major organizational and technical shifts, such as transitioning a company’s core business model or modernizing legacy monetization infrastructure into a flexible, multi-modal engine.
• Education: BS/MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

Benefits

• 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.