Head of Engineering

About the role

Atlassian is looking for an experienced Head of Engineering to lead a departmental engineering organization. You will lead a distributed team of 40 to 80+ engineers across multiple teams, managing Engineering Managers and Senior Staff/Principal ICs. The role works at department level, partnering with Product Management, Product Design and cross-functional partners to set multi-year technical and organizational strategy, deliver complex multi-quarter OKRs and ensure operational excellence across high-scale distributed systems.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with Product, Design and program leaders to define the department's vision, strategic roadmap and funded execution plans.
• Build, structure and evolve engineering teams, and recruit, mentor and coach Engineering Managers and senior technical leaders.
• Drive accountability for company-level and department-level OKRs, balancing feature delivery, technical debt, platform stability and enterprise scale.
• Guide long-term architectural decisions, reliability and security standards across services in a modern cloud environment.
• Navigate cross-team dependencies and drive alignment across platform, product and infrastructure organizations.
• Foster an inclusive, high-trust engineering culture with a bias for action, continuous improvement and rigorous operational and on-call hygiene.

Required profile

• 10+ years of software development and engineering management experience.
• 3+ years as a manager-of-managers, with a track record of scaling organizations of 50+ engineers.
• 5+ years building and operating large-scale SaaS/PaaS/cloud platforms in complex, distributed environments.
• Demonstrated experience delivering multi-quarter roadmaps and building relationships with Product, Design and executive leadership.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience leading globally distributed teams across time zones and geographies.
• Background in data/ML platforms, enterprise readiness, developer experience or core platform infrastructure.
• Track record of continuous delivery, observability and modern DevOps/SRE practices at scale.

The role is listed as remote. Atlassian offers a range of perks and benefits, including health and wellbeing resources and paid volunteer days, and the role may be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions and equity.