Senior Engineering Manager - Atlassian Government Cloud

Atlassian; Jackson (TN); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlassian is seeking a Senior Manager to build and drive Government Cloud platform components, guiding end-to-end release processes and forming a strategic roadmap. You will lead a team of experienced engineers, owning release readiness, go/no-go decisions, and cross-team coordination.

You'll grow the team, define scalable tooling, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, QA, SRE, Security, and Legal to ensure compliant, auditable releases.

Qualifications

• Experience leading 10-15 software engineers.
• Proven release management experience across multi-team environments.
• Ability to define roadmaps and drive multi-quarter plans.
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Own the release process for government releases: planning, versioning, readiness, cutover, verification and rollback.
• Lead a cross-functional team of engineers; manage performance, coaching, and on-call workloads.
• Define a multi-quarter roadmap to reduce release risk and cycle time; enable trunk-based development and canaries.
• Partner with platform teams to scale tooling and reduce manual toil; communicate status to leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Release management

Team management

Strategic planning

Job description

Engineering | San Francisco, United States | Remote, Remote | New York, United States | Seattle, United States | Mountain View, United States or Remote | Austin, United States | Washington DC, United States

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.

About the role

Shipping software is the moment all of engineering's work becomes real for customers and the moment risk is highest. We're looking for a Senior Manager to build and drive Atlassian Government Cloud platform components, especially building and maturing release components end to end!

You’ll lead a team of experienced software engineers who build the infra to support multiple product teams and hundreds of service teams, own the go/no-go decision framework, and drive our shift from continuous delivery to operator-approved releases. This is a hands‑on leadership role: you’ll set strategy and grow people, coach the direction and team, and you’ll also be in the room for the hard launch calls.

What you’ll do

Own the function

• Own the release process for Government releases: planning, branch and versioning strategy, release readiness, cutover, verification, and rollback.
• Run the release calendar and dependency map across teams; make the trade‑offs when timelines, quality signals, and commitments collide.
• Own go/no‑go decisions and the criteria behind them. Define what "ready to ship" means, in writing, and hold the bar.
• Serve as the escalation point for release‑impacting incidents, including out‑of‑hours for major launches.

Lead and grow the team

• Manage, coach, and hire a team of 10‑15 software engineers; set clear expectations, run performance and career development, and build a healthy on‑call and workload rotation.
• Build bench strength so no release depends on one person's memory

Drive the strategy

• Define a multi‑quarter roadmap to reduce release risk and cycle time: trunk‑based development, feature flags, progressive rollout and canaries, automated release gates, and one‑click rollback
• Partner with other platform teams to adapt the tooling that makes the process scale, and retire toil and manual checklists.

Partner broadly

• Work with Engineering, Product, QA, SRE, Support, Security, Docs, Marketing, and Legal/Compliance to align release readiness with launch readiness.
• Communicate status, risk, and decisions crisply to senior leadership
• Run blameless post‑release reviews and convert findings into process or tooling changes.

Keep us compliant and auditable

• Ensure releases meet change management, separation‑of‑duties, and audit requirements (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI, or SOX as applicable) without turning delivery into paperwork.

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.