Head of Engineering

About the Position

Working at Atlassian

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.

We are looking for an experienced Head of Engineering to lead a departmental engineering organization. In this role, you will lead a distributed team of 40–80+ engineers across multiple teams, managing both Engineering Managers and Senior Staff/Principal ICs.

Operating at a department-level scope, you will partner closely with your Triad peers (Product Management and Product Design) and cross-functional partners to set multi-year technical and organizational strategy, deliver complex multi-quarter OKRs, and ensure operational excellence across high-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Strategic & Triad Leadership: Partner with Product, Design, and program leaders to define the vision, strategic roadmap, and funded execution plans for your department.
• Organizational Design & Scale: Build, structure, and evolve high-performing engineering teams; recruit, mentor, and coach Engineering Managers and senior technical leaders.
• Delivery & OKR Ownership: Drive accountability for significant company-level and department-level OKRs, balancing feature delivery, technical debt, platform stability, and enterprise scale.
• Technical Stewardship & Architecture: Guide long-term architectural decisions, reliability, and security standards across multiple services and systems in a modern cloud environment.
• Cross-Organizational Influence: Navigate high-level cross-team dependencies, driving alignment across platform, product, and infrastructure organizations to find win/win trade-offs.
• Culture & Operational Excellence: Foster an inclusive, high-trust engineering culture with a strong bias for action, continuous improvement, and rigorous operational and on-call hygiene.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software development and engineering management experience.
• 3+ years of experience as a manager-of-managers, with a proven track record of scaling organizations of 50+ engineers.
• 5+ years of experience building and operating large-scale SaaS/PaaS/cloud platforms in complex, distributed environments.
• Strategic Execution: Demonstrated experience defining and delivering on multi-quarter roadmaps and translating high-level business ambiguity into clear, funded execution plans.
• Triad & Stakeholder Collaboration: Proven ability to build influential relationships with Product, Design, and executive leadership.
• Communication: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and executive audiences.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to Have

• Experience leading globally distributed teams across multiple time zones and geographies.
• Background in modern data/ML platforms, enterprise readiness, developer experience, or core platform infrastructure.
• Track record of driving continuous delivery, observability, and modern DevOps/SRE best practices at scale.

We Offer

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family, and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

About the Company

At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.

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