Technical Lead, AI Platform & Engineering

Work180; New York (NY); Remote; USD 210,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

At Atlassian, you will lead the Agent Platform engineering focus, guiding ML and platform initiatives that deliver scalable AI-powered experiences. You may be a hands-on contributor or a people manager while building a high-performing team across product, ML, and platform domains.

You will translate strategic AI goals into practical, production-ready platform capabilities, ensuring security, reliability, and strong developer experience across Atlassian products.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading ML/AI platform teams.
• Hands-on coding in production-grade systems.
• Strong ability to align product goals with engineering execution.
• Experience building scalable, secure platforms.

Responsibilities

• Set direction with product, ML, data and platform partners.
• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team.
• Contribute code when needed and drive architectural choices.
• Maintain cadence for planning, risk mgmt, and delivery.
• Balance speed, quality, trust and security across teams.
• Collaborate with leadership to align roadmaps and dependencies.
• Foster an inclusive, high-accountability culture.

Skills

Technical leadership

People management

ML systems

Production code

Platform engineering

Architectural decisions

Job description

At Atlassian, you will lead the Agent Platform engineering focus, guiding ML and platform initiatives that deliver scalable AI-powered experiences. You may be a hands-on contributor or a people manager while building a high-performing team across product, ML, and platform domains.

You will translate strategic AI goals into practical, production-ready platform capabilities, ensuring security, reliability, and strong developer experience across Atlassian products.