Senior Release Engineering Manager - 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

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.