Senior Engineering Manager - Jira Platform
Atlassian · Posted Oct 27
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
Jira Platform aims to become the trusted, agent-native system of record and control plane for human and agent teamwork at enterprise scale. The team focuses on API extensibility, enterprise readiness, cloud migration, governance, and agent-first Jira capabilities. This Senior Engineering Manager will shape platform capabilities, technical strategy, and engineering practices and lead 2-3 scrum teams of 12-20 people while working with principal engineers and driving technical architecture.
What you will do
- As a EM in this organization, you will help turn this vision into reality.
- You will shape the platform capabilities, technical strategy, and engineering practices that enable Jira to become the system of record and control plane for the next generation of human and agent teamwork.
- The overall span of the team would be 12-20 and would be the front-line manager role, to start with.
- As a senior leader, you will work closely with multiple principal engineers, mentor and coach engineers.
- You will not only drive impactful business outcomes but also take part actively in driving the technical architecture.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will bring your rich technical and leadership experience in driving a team of 2-3 scrum teams.
- As a seasoned leader, you will bring in world-class engineering excellence and operational excellence.
- You’ll also thrive in a challenging and growing business environment that has ambiguity, multiple global dependency footprints, and diverse stakeholders.
- This role is fully remote, but requires you to be located in IST TZ.
Benefits and support
- Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two.
About Atlassian
Atlassian is a leading software company that builds enterprise collaboration, project planning, and issue-tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Trello. Empowering teams across the globe, Atlassian focuses on unleashing the potential of every team through advanced workflows, cloud infrastructure, and AI-driven capabilities.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2002
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $210M raised
- 2010-07-13Venture - Series Unknown$60M
- 2014-04-10Secondary Market$150M
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Chief People and AI Enablement Officer
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