[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager, Search Infrastructure @Atlassian

Role Description

In this role, you’ll lead a team responsible for critical search platform capabilities that underpin performance, reliability, and scale.

• Set technical and execution direction for a team working on large-scale search infrastructure.
• Partner with senior engineers, product, and adjacent platform teams to define roadmaps, manage trade-offs, and deliver durable platform improvements.
• Lead through incident readiness, operational reviews, capacity planning, and architecture decisions for high-availability systems.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineers and managers, creating clarity, accountability, and growth across the team.
• Improve engineering effectiveness by strengthening planning, prioritization, technical design, and delivery rhythms.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams that build and operate large-scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrated success managing senior engineers and driving delivery in complex, cross-team environments.
• Strong technical judgment in areas such as reliability, performance, scalability, observability, and system design.
• Experience operating business-critical services with clear ownership of availability, incident response, and operational health.
• Ability to translate broad organizational goals into clear team priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, especially with senior technical and organizational leaders.

Requirements

• Experience growing staff-level technical leadership and beyond.
• Ability to influence architecture and engineering standards beyond the immediate team.
• Experience managing through technical ambiguity, organizational change, or evolving team charters.

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.
• Health and wellbeing resources.
• Paid volunteer days.
• And much more.