[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager @Atlassian

Role Description

Shipping software is the moment all of engineering's work becomes real for customers — and the moment risk is highest. We're looking for a Senior Manager to build and drive Atlassian Government Cloud platform components, especially building and maturing release components end to end!

You'll lead a team of experienced software engineers who build the infra to support multiple product teams and hundreds of service teams, own the go/no-go decision framework, and drive our shift from continuous delivery to operator-approved releases. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll set strategy and grow people, coach the direction and team, and you'll also be in the room for the hard launch calls.

What you'll do

• Own the function
  • Own the release process for Government releases: planning, branch and versioning strategy, release readiness, cutover, verification, and rollback.
  • Run the release calendar and dependency map across teams; make the tradeoffs when timelines, quality signals, and commitments collide.
  • Own go/no-go decisions and the criteria behind them. Define what "ready to ship" means, in writing, and hold the bar.
  • Serve as the escalation point for release-impacting incidents, including out-of-hours for major launches.
• Lead and grow the team
  • Manage, coach, and hire a team of 10-15 software engineers; set clear expectations, run performance and career development, and build a healthy on-call and workload rotation.
  • Build bench strength so no release depends on one person's memory.
• Drive the strategy
  • Define a multi-quarter roadmap to reduce release risk and cycle time: trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive rollout and canaries, automated release gates, and one-click rollback.
  • Partner with other platform teams to adapt the tooling that makes the process scale, and retire toil and manual checklists.
• Partner broadly
  • Work with Engineering, Product, QA, SRE, Support, Security, Docs, Marketing, and Legal/Compliance to align release readiness with launch readiness.
  • Communicate status, risk, and decisions crisply to senior leadership.
  • Run blameless post-release reviews and convert findings into process or tooling changes.
• Keep us compliant and auditable
  • Ensure releases meet change management, separation-of-duties, and audit requirements (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI, or SOX as applicable) without turning delivery into paperwork.

Qualifications

• Experience managing software engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of release management processes.
• Ability to define and implement effective strategies for release risk reduction.
• Excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in a leadership role.
• Proven track record of managing successful software releases.
• Familiarity with compliance and audit requirements.

Benefits

• Health and wellbeing resources.
• Paid volunteer days.
• Competitive compensation programs.
• Potential for bonuses, commissions, and equity.