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Senior Engineering Manager - Atlassian Government Cloud

trelloAustin, TX

yesterday

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Computer Systems Engineers/ArchitectsSoftware DevelopersArchitectural and Engineering Managers

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Software PublishersCustom Computer Programming ServicesComputer Systems Design Services
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Senior Engineering Manager - Atlassian Government Cloud Engineering | San Francisco, United States | Remote, New York, United States | Seattle, United States | Mountain View, United States or Remote | Austin, United States | Washington DC, United States 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.
About The Role: Shipping software is the moment all of engineering's work becomes real for customers — and the moment risk is highest. We're looking for a Senior Manager to build and drive Atlassian Government Cloud platform components, especially building and maturing release components end to end! You'll lead a team of experienced software engineers who build the infra to support multiple product teams and hundreds of service teams, own the go/no-go decision framework, and drive our shift from continuous delivery to operator-approved releases. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll set strategy and grow people, coach the direction and team, and you'll also be in the room for the hard launch calls.
What You'll Do:
  • Own the function
  • 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.
  • At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
  • This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

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Experience level

Manager

Location

Austin, TX

Occupation

Computer Systems Engineers/Architects

Industry

Software Publishers

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yesterday

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