Overview
Working at Atlassian
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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
With a sufficient timezone overlap with the team, we're able to hire eligible candidates for this role from any location in Australia and New Zealand. If this sparks your interest, apply today and chat with our friendly Recruitment team further.
Responsibilities
Your future team
Are you a maker who loves to build teams and products to solve real problems for customers? Atlassian is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join Product Engineering Organisation reporting into a Head of Engineering
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will work with our product management and design teams to deliver incrementally, experiment to explore new ideas, and focus on continuous improvement in every aspect of what we do.
You will manage a group of 10-18 engineers and mentor and support them in their professional development, unlocking their potential, and challenging them to step outside their comfort zone to grow and excel.
What You'll Do
- Support your team by holding regular one on ones, giving context on priorities, collaborating with other teams, unblocking projects, and resolving conflicts.
- Hire and grow your team members careers, participate in hiring planning and other budgeting exercises
- Enable your multi-functional team to ship features quickly and safely whilst managing a large team, providing them with the tooling and processes needed for success.
- Collaborate in technical/architectural discussions, provide direction and drive decision-making and operational excellence, encouraging innovation and quality.
- Be both a technical leader and people manager responsible for guiding your team to make solid technical decisions.
- Own the delivery of critical projects and help to coordinate the team’s work alongside your product management and design peers.
- Partner with leadership, stakeholders, cross-functional teams to drive outcomes aligned to company and organisational goals.
- Identify blockers, goals, success metrics ensuring awareness, OKR/roadmap, and expectations
Qualifications
Your background
- 5+ years of experience managing software engineers.
- Bachelor's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience.
- You’re able to spar with senior engineers on systems design, pulling from your background as a hands-on engineer.
- Demonstrated experience implementing dev-ops best practices.
- Excited to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
- You have experience communicating with teams, partners, customers in async- and remote-friendly working practices.
- You know how to pick the right communication tool for the problem at hand (chat, video, email, etc.).
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.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit
go.atlassian.com/crh .
