Senior Engineering Manager

Atlassian; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 210,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlassian is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead a distributed, high-performing full-stack team across global locations. You will drive platform capabilities, shaping the design system, tooling, and localization efforts to deliver scalable, accessible software experiences.

You will mentor senior engineers, partner with design, product, and TPMs, and foster a culture of technical excellence, psychological safety, and continuous growth across time zones.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams in platform or full-stack domains.
• Proven track record leading senior and principal engineers.
• Strong full-stack background: backend services, distributed systems, microservices.
• Experience with design system infrastructure, developer platforms, localization, or AI tooling.
• Collaborates with design managers, product managers, and TPMs to balance quality and velocity.
• Leads distributed, asynchronous teams across multiple time zones.

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing, distributed full-stack engineering team.
• Drive developer experience and platform capabilities across design system and tooling.
• Scale and evolve localization platform to support global customer experiences.
• Partner with design, product, and engineering to embed accessibility and internationalization.
• Drive release hygiene, governance, and platform stability with fast iteration.
• Be the engineering anchor in triad planning with Design, Product, and TPMs.
• Cultivate open, high-trust engineering culture with psychological safety.

Skills

Full-stack leadership

Distributed systems

React & TypeScript

Mentorship & coaching

Cross-timezone collaboration

Developer platforms

Localization systems

AI-assisted workflows

Job description

Overview

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.

Your future team

To be a 100-year company, we are proudly building a world-class engineering organization composed of empowered teams that are equipped with the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing, distributed full-stack engineering team across levels in global locations.

• Drive full-stack developer experience and platform capabilities across the design system, championing theming infrastructure, rapid prototyping tools, AI-powered accessibility (A11y) remediation, and developer tooling that unblock product teams to build high-quality experiences faster.

• Scale and evolve Atlassian's in-house translation and localization platform, improving translation quality, latency, and adoption across product surfaces to support global customer experiences.

• Partner with design, product, and engineering peers to embed accessibility, internationalization, and quality standards directly into platform tools and automated guardrails.

• Drive operational excellence, release hygiene, and governance across shared packages and services, balancing platform stability with fast developer iteration.

• Be the engineering anchor in triad planning with Design, Product Management, and TPM partners, driving roadmap alignment and quarterly capacity allocation.

• Cultivate an open, high-trust engineering culture focused on craft excellence, psychological safety, and continuous technical growth.

Your background:

• 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams in platform or full-stack domains.

• Proven track record leading senior and principal engineers, guiding execution, and mentoring talent within the team.

• Strong full-stack technical background spanning backend service architecture (distributed systems, resilient microservices) paired with modern web foundations (React, TypeScript, browser runtime performance).

• Experience with design system infrastructure, developer platforms, prototyping tooling, localization systems, or AI-assisted developer workflows at scale.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate closely with design managers, product managers, and TPMs to balance design quality with platform scalability and developer velocity.

• Track record of leading distributed, asynchronous engineering teams across multiple time zones.

• Passion for technical mentorship, operational rigor, and building high-trust team cultures.

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

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

Qualifications

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.

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.