Senior Engineering Manager - Jira Platform

About the role

Atlassian is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of 2-3 Scrum teams (spanning 12-20 people) on the Jira Platform, which aims to become the trusted system of record and control plane for human and agent teamwork at enterprise scale. The role is fully remote, with the expectation that the manager be located in the IST time zone; interviews and onboarding are virtual.

Key responsibilities

• Shape the platform's capabilities, technical strategy and engineering practices.
• Work closely with multiple principal engineers and mentor and coach engineers.
• Drive both business outcomes and the technical architecture.
• Support the three guiding directions: AI transformation (agent-native workflows), enterprise readiness (security, scale, resilience, admin capabilities) and efficiency (unit economics, developer productivity, reliability).

Required profile

• Experience leading large development teams directly.
• Experience building platforms and products in a SaaS world.
• Familiarity with agile software development methodologies.
• Ability to drive technical excellence, quality and operational excellence, and to deliver results in an ambiguous, globally connected environment.
• Preferred: experience defining strategic roadmaps for products and platforms, distributed development teams, and continuous delivery.

What we offer

• Base pay set within a range according to skills, knowledge and experience.
• Possible eligibility for benefits, bonuses, commissions and equity.
• Health and wellbeing resources and paid volunteer days among other perks.