Senior Engineering Manager - Atlassian Government Cloud

Atlassian; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Paid volunteer days

Equity and bonuses

Job summary

At Atlassian, a Senior Manager will lead the Government Cloud release engineering efforts, owning end-to-end delivery of critical release components, and driving risk reduction across teams. You’ll set strategy, coach engineers, and participate in hard launch decisions.

You will partner with Platform, Product, QA, SRE, Security, and Compliance to align readiness with launches, while maintaining auditable processes and compliant controls across SOC 2, ISO 27001, and related standards.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading multi‑team software engineering efforts.
• Ability to define and enforce release readiness criteria and go/no‑go decisions.
• Strong cross‑functional collaboration with Product, QA, Security, and Legal.

Responsibilities

• Own the Government release function end-to-end.
• Define release strategy, planning, branch/versioning, and rollback.
• Run release calendar and manage cross-team dependencies.
• Make and communicate go/no-go decisions and readiness criteria.
• Escalate and manage release‑impacting incidents, including after‑hours.

Skills

Leadership

Release management

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Go/no-go decisions

Communication

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 |

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 tradeoffs 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.

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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