Senior Engineering Manager, Search Infrastructure

About the Position

We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Search Infrastructure to lead a team responsible for critical search platform capabilities that underpin performance, reliability, and scale.

Responsibilities

• Set technical and execution direction for a team working on large-scale search infrastructure.
• Partner with senior engineers, product, and adjacent platform teams to define roadmaps, manage trade-offs, and deliver durable platform improvements.
• Lead through incident readiness, operational reviews, capacity planning, and architecture decisions for high-availability systems.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineers and managers, creating clarity, accountability, and growth across the team.
• Improve engineering effectiveness by strengthening planning, prioritization, technical design, and delivery rhythms.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams that build and operate large-scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrated success managing senior engineers and driving delivery in complex, cross-team environments. Experience growing staff-level technical leadership and beyond.
• Strong technical judgment in areas such as reliability, performance, scalability, observability, and system design. Ability to influence architecture and engineering standards beyond the immediate team.
• Experience operating business-critical services with clear ownership of availability, incident response, and operational health.
• Ability to translate broad organizational goals into clear team priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes. Experience managing through technical ambiguity, organizational change, or evolving team charters.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, especially with senior technical and organizational leaders.

Nice to Have

• Experience with search infrastructure, indexing systems, large-scale data pipelines for search/ML, storage engines, or low-latency retrieval systems.
• Track record of leading platform teams that serve many internal customers and balance roadmap work with reliability investment.

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.

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