Senior Engineering Manager at Atlassian | CA, US | Rezi

Senior Engineering Manager at Atlassian

Senior Engineering Manager

Atlassian · CA, US

4 days ago

Senior Engineering Manager

Atlassian · CA, US

5 days ago
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About the Role

The Developer Infrastructure (Dev Infra) organization powers the systems, runtime environments, and tooling that every Atlassian engineer relies on daily. Engineering at Atlassian prioritizes initiatives that advance AI and support our customers' transition to the cloud while consistently delivering maximum value through our core product suite – Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket. Solutions and infrastructure proven internally have a direct pathway to becoming features in Atlassian’s customer-facing developer and AI products. We seek individuals eager to shape the future and believe in the power of collaboration to achieve extraordinary results together.

Responsibilities

  • Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing distributed team of engineering managers, principal engineers, and senior software engineers.
  • Drive AI Measurement & Evaluation by building frameworks that measure whether AI tools and agents are genuinely delivering value across codebases and workflows.
  • Optimize AI Effectiveness and context retrieval pipelines, driving down unit costs while improving model accuracy and agent reliability.
  • Build and operate scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient compute and runtime infrastructure for agentic workflows and developer tooling.
  • Act as the engineering voice in quarterly planning, capacity allocation, and long-term technical roadmaps.
  • Collaborate with executive leadership, product management, and cross-functional partners to productize internally proven AI platform capabilities.
  • Foster an open, high-trust, operationally mature engineering culture with high standards of technical excellence and psychological safety.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams.
  • 2+ years of experience managing other engineering managers or leading teams of senior/principal engineers.
  • Strong foundational background in distributed systems, developer platforms, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), or developer tooling.
  • Experience with applied AI/ML systems, LLMs, AI agents, MCP tooling, RAG, or AI evaluation frameworks.
  • Demonstrated experience partnering with product managers, TPMs, and designers to shape product and platform strategy.
  • Proven track record of operating in distributed, asynchronous global engineering environments across multiple time zones.
  • Demonstrated experience implementing DevOps, CI/CD, and site reliability best practices.
  • Eagerness to foster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and operational rigor.

Skills

  • Distributed systems
  • Developer platforms
  • Cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure)
  • Developer tooling
  • Applied AI/ML systems
  • LLMs
  • AI agents
  • MCP tooling
  • RAG
  • AI evaluation frameworks
  • DevOps
  • CI/CD
  • Site reliability best practices

Location

  • Any country where Atlassian has a legal entity

Work Type

  • Office, home, or a combination of the two

Experience Level

  • 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams
  • 2+ years of experience managing other engineering managers or leading teams of senior/principal engineers

Education Level

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

Salary/Compensations

  • Zone A: $209,700 - $273,775
  • Zone B: $188,730 - $246,398
  • Zone C: $174,051 - $227,233

Benefits

  • Health and wellbeing resources
  • Paid volunteer days

About the Company

  • 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 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.

Equal Opportunity

  • 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.