Senior Engineering Manager, Search Infrastructure
Atlassian · Posted Oct 14
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
The Search Platform team at Atlassian builds the search capabilities that connect people and agents to knowledge, content, and actions when they need them most. The team works at the intersection of distributed systems, data infrastructure, developer platforms, product impact, and operational excellence, with a focus on customer impact, service reliability, and scalable platform design. This role leads a team responsible for critical search platform capabilities that underpin performance, reliability, and scale, setting technical and execution direction while hiring, coaching, and developing engineers and managers.
What you will do
- Set technical and execution direction for a team working on large-scale search infrastructure.
- Partner with senior engineers, product, and adjacent platform teams to define roadmaps, manage trade-offs, and deliver durable platform improvements.
- Lead through incident readiness, operational reviews, capacity planning, and architecture decisions for high-availability systems.
- Hire, coach, and develop engineers and managers, creating clarity, accountability, and growth across the team.
- Improve engineering effectiveness by strengthening planning, prioritization, technical design, and delivery rhythms.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams that build and operate large-scale distributed systems.
- Demonstrated success managing senior engineers and driving delivery in complex, cross-team environments.
- Experience growing staff-level technical leadership and beyond.
- Strong technical judgment in areas such as reliability, performance, scalability, observability, and system design.
- Ability to influence architecture and engineering standards beyond the immediate team.
- Experience operating business-critical services with clear ownership of availability, incident response, and operational health.
- Ability to translate broad organizational goals into clear team priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Experience managing through technical ambiguity, organizational change, or evolving team charters.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, especially with senior technical and organizational leaders.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with search infrastructure, indexing syste...
Benefits and support
- Flexible work location – office, from home, or a combination of the two
- Bonuses
- Equity
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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