Senior Engineering Manager

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.

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.

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.

This is an opportunity to join a high-impact Growth team and learn how world-class experimentation works ’re the Spark team — we light the fire for customer acquisition. We innovate, personalize, and run experiments on top-of-funnel Atlassian surfaces, and build AEO/SEO features that help millions discover and sign up for Atlassian products.

• Lead and develop talent:
  Manage, mentor, and coach a team of engineers, supporting their individual career growth, skill development, and progression.
• Build a high-performing culture:
  Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe environment where continuous learning, feedback, and high standards thrive.
• Team composition & hiring:
  Partner with Talent Acquisition to attract, interview, and hire diverse engineering talent while maintaining balanced team capacity.
• Monitor team health:
  Proactively track and support team well-being, engagement, and operational sustainability.

• Own team outcomes:
  Drive execution across multiple top-of--the-funnel work streams, ensuring the team delivers measurable customer and business value with speed and consistency.
• Prioritization & trade-offs:
  Make pragmatic delivery trade-offs between feature development, technical debt, reliability, and security.
• Process & workflow optimization:
  Establish and refine agile practices to streamline execution, remove blockers, and improve developer velocity.

• Technical direction:
  Deeply understand the team’s architecture, systems, and dependencies to guide the medium-to-long-term technical strategy. Establish AEO methodologies that measure, influence, and simulate AEO Engines.
• Engineering excellence:
  Champion best practices across design reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, code quality, and the effective use of AI.
• System resilience:
  Partner with senior engineers to guide architectural decisions that ensure scalability, modularity, and maintainability.

• Meaningful Impact Early:
  Your code ships to real users on Atlassian's acquisition surfaces from your first quarter
• Learning and
  
  Collaboration:
  
  We partner with our teams and products to deliver the best personalized outcomes for our customers
• A culture of measurement:
  We don't guess. We test, instrument, analyze, and decide based on data. Our metrics tie directly to the customer and the business.

• 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience).
• Strong foundational background in distributed systems, developer platforms, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), or developer tooling.
• Experience with applied AI/ML systems, LLMs, AI agents, MCP tooling, RAG, or AI evaluation frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with…