Working at Atlassian
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We're searching for a Senior Engineering Manager to join Atlassian. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll be a technical leader and people manager, responsible for leading the team to technical decisions and delivery for production services that meet the high bar of quality our customers expect. You will do that by ensuring the right software is built to solve the customer needs, helping prioritize and organize the team's work, and providing career growth and mentorship opportunities to your team. You will manage a group of 10-18 engineers on a Backend Software Engineering Team and work closely with your design and product management counterparts to build user journeys that unleash the potential of each team for our current and future customers.
Your Future Team
To become a 100-year company, we need a world-class engineering organisation made up of empowered teams who have the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers. As part of a unified R&D team, Engineering is prioritizing key initiatives which solve the near and long term growth of our platforms that support Atlassian's product suite - including Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket, and also our customers and partners who extend Atlassian platform and products to creatively solve their unique business needs. You will lead a team that is building the platforms that power the growth of these solutions.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Inspire innovation and operational excellence
- Own the delivery of critical projects in a microservices environment
- Be the engineering owner in our quarterly planning process
- Build an open, trusting, operationally mature culture
- Participate in hiring planning and other budgeting exercises
- Collaborate in technical/architectural discussions, provide direction and drive decision-making
Qualifications
Your Background:
- 5+ years of experience managing software engineers in a cloud first delivery environment.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience).
- Demonstrated experience partnering with internal customers.
- Demonstrated experience implementing dev-ops best practices.
- Familiarity working with distributed, high scale, high growth services.
- Excited to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
- Ability to make tech and business tradeoff decisions and leading through ambiguity.
- Demonstrated ability to grow, mentor, coach software engineers.
- Demonstrated ability to work across teams and crafts to align on solutions and decisions.
Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
About Atlassian
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 .
What We Do
Atlassian creates teamwork solutions for high-performing teams. Our portfolio of collaboration and work management software products includes Jira, Confluence, Trello, Loom and Rovo. More than 300,000 businesses worldwide rely on Atlassian’s technology, including 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Our solutions support various business teams and they help organizations plan, track, and deliver their biggest ideas together.
Why Work With Us
At Atlassian, we believe we can accomplish so much more together than apart — which is why everything from our tooling — to our distributed workforce — to how our teams are structured is rooted in collaboration. Come join us and help unleash the potential of every team.
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