Senior Software Engineering Manager - Atlassian AI

Atlassian • San Francisco, CA

119d • $206,100 - $269,075

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading and managing high-performing engineering teams, preferably in large-scale distributed systems or data-intensive platforms.
• Strong technical background in backend systems, APIs, data ingestion pipelines, or infrastructure at scale, with the ability to dive into technical discussions and guide architectural decisions.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills, with a track record of delivering complex projects involving cross-team and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers of varying levels, fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and collaboration.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to balance technical trade-offs, manage risks, and align teams toward long-term goals.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to clearly articulate vision, priorities, and technical context to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of software engineers responsible for building and maintaining the large-scale ingestion infrastructure powering Atlassian’s 50+ third-party SaaS connectors.
• Define and drive the technical vision for scalable, reliable, and secure data ingestion, ensuring the system can handle hundreds of millions of entities daily across heterogeneous apps and tenants.
• Partner closely with product, platform, and other Central AI teams (e.g., Search, TWG, FDS, Identity) to align on priorities, architecture, and long-term roadmap.
• Establish and enforce best practices in software development, observability, performance optimization, and operational excellence for ingestion services.
• Mentor and develop engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration while ensuring career growth opportunities.
• Drive execution through clear planning, prioritization, and resource allocation to balance new feature delivery with platform stability and reliability.
• Anticipate and mitigate risks in large-scale ingestion (e.g., connector failures, tenant heterogeneity, evolving third-party APIs) to ensure robust service delivery.

Benefits

• Health and wellbeing resources
• Paid volunteer days
• Equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs
• Eligibility for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity

What This Job Offers

• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees