Atlassian

Senior Engineering Manager

Atlassian$174K — $273K *
US-AnywhereRemote in San Francisco, CA
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering team management experience.
  • 2+ years managing engineering managers or leading senior/principal engineers.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree, ideally in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong background in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure).
  • Experience with AI/ML systems, LLMs, AI agents, and evaluation frameworks.
  • Proven collaboration with product managers and cross-functional teams.
  • Experience in distributed, asynchronous global engineering environments.

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a distributed team of engineering managers and senior engineers.
  • Drive AI Measurement & Evaluation frameworks for codebases and workflows.
  • Optimize AI effectiveness and context retrieval pipelines.
  • Build scalable and cost-efficient compute infrastructure for developer tooling.
  • Participate in quarterly planning and technical roadmap discussions.
  • Collaborate with leadership to productize AI platform capabilities.
  • Foster a high-trust, operationally mature engineering culture.

Benefits

  • Health and wellbeing resources.
  • Paid volunteer days.
  • Diverse perks designed to support you and your family.
Full Job Description
Overview

Your future team

To be a 100-year company, we are proudly building a world-class engineering organization composed of empowered teams that are equipped with the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers.

The Developer Infrastructure (Dev Infra) organization powers the systems, runtime environments, and tooling that every Atlassian engineer relies on daily. Engineering at Atlassian prioritizes initiatives that advance AI and support our customers' transition to the cloud while consistently delivering maximum value through our core product suite – Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.

Because Dev Infra actively dogfoods and partners directly with commercial product teams, the solutions and infrastructure your team proves internally have a direct pathway to becoming features in Atlassian’s customer-facing developer and AI products. We seek individuals who are eager to shape the future and believe in the power of collaboration to achieve extraordinary results together.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

  • Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing distributed team of engineering managers, principal engineers, and senior software engineers.

  • Drive AI Measurement & Evaluation by building frameworks that measure whether AI tools and agents are genuinely delivering value across codebases and workflows.

  • Optimize AI Effectiveness and context retrieval pipelines, driving down unit costs while improving model accuracy and agent reliability.

  • Build and operate scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient compute and runtime infrastructure for agentic workflows and developer tooling.

  • Be the engineering voice in quarterly planning, capacity allocation, and long-term technical roadmaps.

  • Collaborate with executive leadership, product management, and cross-functional partners to productize internally proven AI platform capabilities.

  • Foster an open, high-trust, operationally mature engineering culture with high standards of technical excellence and psychological safety.

Your background:

  • 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams.

  • 2+ years of experience managing other engineering managers or leading teams of senior/principal engineers.

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience).

  • Strong foundational background in distributed systems, developer platforms, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), or developer tooling.

  • Experience with applied AI/ML systems, LLMs, AI agents, MCP tooling, RAG, or AI evaluation frameworks.

  • Demonstrated experience partnering with product managers, TPMs, and designers to shape product and platform strategy.

  • Proven track record of operating in distributed, asynchronous global engineering environments across multiple time zones.

  • Demonstrated experience implementing DevOps, CI/CD, and site reliability best practices.

  • Excited to foster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and operational rigor.

Compensation

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.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Pay Ranges

In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $209,700 - $273,775

Zone B: $188,730 - $246,398

Zone C: $174,051 - $227,233

Qualifications

Benefits & Perks

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 Atlassian

Atlassian is a leading provider of collaboration, development, and issue tracking software for teams. With over 194,000 customers worldwide, including 85 of the Fortune 100, Atlassian is changing the way teams work. Our products help teams organize, discuss, and complete shared work. Atlassian has a unique business model that allows us to deliver software to teams of all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises. Our products are available on a subscription basis, with no upfront fees or long-term commitments. Atlassian was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Atlassian
Size
6,433 employees
Market Cap
$31.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.1 billion
Founded
2002
5 Year Trend
+34.9%
Revenue
$1.8 billion
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