Senior Engineering Manager, Government Cloud Release Lead

Atlassian; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Bonuses & equity

Job summary

At Atlassian in Mountain View, a Senior Manager will lead Government Cloud platform components, guiding multi-team releases and establishing go/no-go criteria. You will coach a team of engineers, coordinate release readiness, and ensure compliant, auditable release processes for major launches.

This hands-on leadership role requires strategic planning, team growth, and effective collaboration with Engineering, Product, QA, SRE, Security, and Legal to align launch readiness with compliance and

Qualifications

• Senior-level, hands-on leadership in software development or platform teams.
• Experience owning release processes end-to-end across multiple product teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management for leadership and cross-team alignment.

Responsibilities

• Own the release function for Government releases: planning, branch/versioning strategy, release readiness, cutover, verification, rollback.

Skills

Leadership

Release management

Cloud platform

Strategy & roadmaps

Cross-functional leadership

Mentoring & coaching

Tools

SOC 2

ISO 27001

FedRAMP

Job description

At Atlassian in Mountain View, a Senior Manager will lead Government Cloud platform components, guiding multi-team releases and establishing go/no-go criteria. You will coach a team of engineers, coordinate release readiness, and ensure compliant, auditable release processes for major launches.

This hands-on leadership role requires strategic planning, team growth, and effective collaboration with Engineering, Product, QA, SRE, Security, and Legal to align launch readiness with compliance and