Senior Engineering Manager

Atlassian Corp.; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 189,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Volunteer days

Equity and competitive compensation

Job summary

Atlassian is seeking a senior engineering leader to join the Spark growth team in a role that combines people leadership with technical direction.

You will mentor engineers, build a high-performing culture, and partner with Talent Acquisition to recruit diverse talent while maintaining team capacity. You’ll own outcomes, optimize processes, and guide architecture for scalable, AI-enabled platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams.
• 2+ years of experience managing other engineering managers or leading teams of senior/principal engineers.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree (CS preferred).
• Strong background in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or developer tooling.
• Experience with applied AI/ML systems, LLMs, AI agents, MCP tooling, RAG, or AI evaluation frameworks.
• Demonstrated collaboration with product managers, TPMs, and designers to shape product and platform strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop talent, mentoring engineers and shaping career growth.
• Foster an inclusive, high-performing culture with a focus on learning and feedback.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to attract and hire diverse engineering talent.
• Monitor team health, engagement, and operational sustainability.
• Own team outcomes and drive execution across top-of-funnel workstreams.
• Prioritize trade-offs between feature work, technical debt, reliability, and security.
• Establish agile practices to streamline execution and improve velocity.
• Provide technical direction and architecture to guide long-term strategy.
• Champion engineering excellence across code quality, testing, CI/CD, and documentation.

Skills

Team leadership

Mentoring

Hiring & growth

Cross-functional collaboration

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

AI/ML systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree in CS or related field

Tools

AWS / GCP / Azure

AI frameworks

Developer tooling

Job description

Engineering | Austin, United States | Remote, Remote | San Francisco, United States | Seattle, United States | New York, United States |

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.

About the role

This is an opportunity to join a high-impact Growth team and learn how world-class experimentation works at scale. We’re the Spark team — we light the fire for customer acquisition. We innovate, personalize, and run experiments on top-of-funnel Atlassian surfaces, and build AEO/SEO features that help millions discover and sign up for Atlassian products.

Lead and develop talent: Manage, mentor, and coach a team of engineers, supporting their individual career growth, skill development, and progression.

Build a high-performing culture: Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe environment where continuous learning, feedback, and high standards thrive.

Team composition & hiring: Partner with Talent Acquisition to attract, interview, and hire diverse engineering talent while maintaining balanced team capacity.

Monitor team health: Proactively track and support team well-being, engagement, and operational sustainability.

Delivery & Outcome Ownership

Own team outcomes: Drive execution across multiple top-of--the-funnel workstreams, ensuring the team delivers measurable customer and business value with speed and consistency.

Prioritization & trade-offs: Make pragmatic delivery trade-offs between feature development, technical debt, reliability, and security.

Process & workflow optimization: Establish and refine agile practices to streamline execution, remove blockers, and improve developer velocity.

Technical Leadership & Architecture

Technical direction: Deeply understand the team’s architecture, systems, and dependencies to guide the medium-to-long-term technical strategy. Establish AEO methodologies that measure, influence, and simulate AEO Engines.

Engineering excellence: Champion best practices across design reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, code quality, and the effective use of AI.

System resilience: Partner with senior engineers to guide architectural decisions that ensure scalability, modularity, and maintainability.

Why Spark?

Meaningful Impact Early: Your code ships to real users on Atlassian's acquisition surfaces from your first quarter

Learning and Collaboration: We partner with our teams and products to deliver the best personalized outcomes for our customers

A culture of measurement: We don't guess. We test, instrument, analyze, and decide based on data. Our metrics tie directly to the customer and the business.

Your background:

5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams.

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

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

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.

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.

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: $209,700 - $273,775

Zone B: $188,730 - $246,398

Zone C: $174,051 - $227,233

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.

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.

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