Senior Engineering Manager - Atlassian Government Cloud

About the Position

We're seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Atlassian Government Cloud to lead software engineering teams and drive platform components.

Responsibilities

• Own the release process for Government releases: planning, branch and versioning strategy, release readiness, cutover, verification, and rollback.
• Run the release calendar and dependency map across teams; make the tradeoffs when timelines, quality signals, and commitments collide.
• Own go/no-go decisions and the criteria behind them. Define what "ready to ship" means, in writing, and hold the bar.
• Serve as the escalation point for release-impacting incidents, including out-of-hours for major launches.

Lead and Grow the Team

• Manage, coach, and hire a team of 10-15 software engineers; set clear expectations, run performance and career development, and build a healthy on-call and workload rotation.
• Build bench strength so no release depends on one person's memory.

Drive the Strategy

• Define a multi-quarter roadmap to reduce release risk and cycle time: trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive rollout and canaries, automated release gates, and one-click rollback.
• Partner with other platform teams to adapt the tooling that makes the process scale, and retire toil and manual checklists.

Partner Broadly

• Work with Engineering, Product, QA, SRE, Support, Security, Docs, Marketing, and Legal/Compliance to align release readiness with launch readiness.
• Communicate status, risk, and decisions crisply to senior leadership.
• Run blameless post-release reviews and convert findings into process or tooling changes.

Keep Us Compliant and Auditable

• Ensure releases meet change management, separation-of-duties, and audit requirements (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI, or SOX as applicable) without turning delivery into paperwork.

We Offer

• Competitive compensation based on skills, knowledge, and experience.
• Wide range of perks and benefits including health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
• Potential eligibility for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

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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