Principal Technical Program Manager

Atlassian; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 204,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing resources

Paid volunteer days

Flexible work locations

Job summary

Atlassian is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to drive strategy and execution across agent integration, quality, and API governance platform layers. You will lead programs that help agents connect to tools, measure agent quality, and govern agent traffic through rate limits, quotas, and standards.

You will partner across Security, Identity, engineering, and product teams to standardize interfaces, ensure reliability, and articulate roadmaps in evolving platform domains.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years in Technical Program Management or related technical discipline.
• Experience delivering API platforms, distributed backends, developer ecosystems, automation platforms, or AI/ML integrations.
• Strong understanding of API architecture, rate limiting, quotas, concurrency, resilience, and lifecycle governance.

Responsibilities

• Drive standardized tool-calling interfaces and integration patterns across ecosystems.
• Define practical quality measures for agent accuracy, task completion, and user experience.
• Lead rate limiting, quotas, concurrency controls, and traffic-shaping for agent APIs and automation triggers.
• Turn ambiguous multi-team problems into clear roadmaps with ownership and RFCs.

Skills

Technical Program Management

API architecture

Platform product leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Execution in ambiguity

Agent execution & tool binding

Quality measurement

RFCs & sequence diagrams

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Distributed systems

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to drive technical strategy and cross-functional execution across our agent integration, quality, and API governance platform layers. In this role, you will lead the platform and programs that help agents connect reliably to first- and third-party tools, establish practical ways to measure and improve agent quality, and govern agent and automation traffic through rate limits, quotas, API standards, and runtime safeguards. The scope will evolve as the platform and industry mature, so success requires strong technical judgment, structured execution, and comfort operating in ambiguity.

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

Key Scope & Core Responsibilities

Agent integrations and tool ecosystem

• Drive standardized tool-calling interfaces, action schemas, and integration patterns across internal and external ecosystems.
• Partner with Security and Identity teams on authentication, token exchange, permission scopes, tenant isolation, and credential management.
• Improve onboarding and lifecycle management for teams and partners adding tools, skills, and automated actions.

Agent quality and observability

• Define practical quality measures for agent accuracy, task completion, tool selection, groundedness, safety, and user experience.
• Establish representative test sets and eval benchmarks, golden scenarios, and regression practices for prompt, model, tool, and workflow changes.
• Partner with engineering teams on agent traces and telemetry that make multi-step execution, tool failures, latency, and quality issues diagnosable.

API monetization, governance and runtime controls

• Lead rate limiting, tenant quotas, concurrency controls, and traffic-shaping strategies across agent APIs and automation triggers.
• Establish safeguards for runaway loops and downstream failures, including timeouts, retries, backoff, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation.
• Drive API standards, versioning, backward compatibility, breaking-change management, and deprecation practices.
• Drive API monetization capabilities such as standardization of API units, metering, integration across all experiences and interfaces.

Cross-functional execution

• Turn ambiguous, multi-team problems into clear roadmaps, milestones, ownership models, and technical decision documents.
• Facilitate trade-offs such as synchronous versus asynchronous tool execution, live versus offline quality signals, and global versus tenant-scoped controls.

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Pay Ranges

Role

In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

• Zone A: $204,300 - $266,725
• Zone B: $183,870 - $240,053
• Zone C: $169,569 - $221,382

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications

• 8–10+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Platform Product Management, software engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience delivering API platforms, distributed backend systems, developer ecosystems, automation platforms, or AI/ML integrations.
• Strong understanding of API architecture, distributed rate limiting, quotas, concurrency controls, resilience patterns, and API lifecycle governance.
• Working knowledge of agent execution, function calling, tool binding, action schemas, and integration protocols.
• Understanding of agent quality measurement, including task success, accuracy, representative test cases, and human or model-assisted evaluation.
• Ability to engage deeply and partner with senior engineers on technical reviews, RFCs, sequence diagrams, and failure-mode analysis.
• Proven ability to create structure, clarify ownership, and deliver outcomes in evolving and ambiguous platform domains.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with standardized AI agents, agentic workflows and agent-tool protocols (e.g., Model Context Protocol - MCP, OpenAPI-based tool ecosystems).
• Familiarity with offline LLM evaluation harnesses, synthetic benchmarking, and red-teaming pipelines.
• Experience with developer-facing integration ecosystems, app marketplaces, workflow engines, or automation platforms.
• Familiarity with agent observability, distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry, and quality or evaluation tooling.
• Background in multi-cloud, distributed deployment strategies (AWS, GCP, Azure) and hybrid inferencing infrastructure.
• Experience defining platform metrics that connect technical health, adoption, reliability, and user outcomes.

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.

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