Senior Engineering Manager

Job Description

Lead, hire and grow a team of high performing engineers including technical leaders Work with leaders across the organization and Principal Engineers/Architects to guide the technical roadmap for scaling and evolving the services Accountable for reliability, security, performance and scale of all the services you own Work with teams across the company to drive adoption of services you own Drive cultural change through technical excellence, quality and efficiency Support teams in driving large projects with complex dependencies and multiple stakeholders Partner across engineering teams to tackle company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects Help uplift Atlassian s cloud security, reliability and compliance footprint On your first day, well expect you to have: A track record building and leading high-performing software development teams in a technical capacity Experience supporting the growth and development of team members including performance management Strong organizational, contribution, communication and project management skills The ability to drive technical excellence, pushing innovation and quality you're able to spar with senior engineers on systems design, pulling from your background as a hands-on engineer. Familiarity with agile software development methodologies A strong customer mindset, and a passion to help your team better understand and support the needs of their customers An ability to be able to pivot from the "big picture" and zoom in on the detail, as required Experience with large scale distributed systems and microservices at scale using cloud-provider-based infrastructure Proficiency in containerized workloads and cluster management software like Kubernetes Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (eg, AWS, GCP, Azure) Proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Java, C++, Python (or similar) Experience in the following is preferred: Bachelors or Masters degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience). Experience leading remote, geographically-spread teams Familiarity with product management practices Experience in managing cloud services Experience in containerized workloads and cluster managers like Kubernetes Operational experience leading teams responsible for running mission-critical production services