Senior Engineering Manager, Government Cloud Releases (Remote)

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

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.