
Senior Engineering Manager – TDP Insights and Data Resiliency
Atlassian · Posted Oct 9
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
Atlassian's Trusted Data Platform (TDP) provides secure, reliable, and scalable data capabilities used by product and platform teams, managing persistent customer data while meeting enterprise requirements like data residency, encryption, and compliance. TDP Insights provides the intelligence layer for TDP, transforming platform telemetry into actionable insights, while Atlassian Data Resiliency (ADR) strengthens end-to-end recovery across TDP. This role will lead the TDP Insights and ADR engineering team, accountable for people, strategy, execution, and operational outcomes.
What you will do
- Lead, coach, and develop engineers and senior technical leaders, establishing clear expectations and accountability.
- Build an inclusive, high-performing team through effective hiring, onboarding, talent development, and succession planning.
- Develop senior technical and leadership talent by delegating meaningful ownership to senior engineers and emerging leaders.
- Establish operating practices that support good decisions, predictable execution, and continuous improvement.
- Manage capacity across strategic investments, customer commitments, operational work, and technical debt.
- Build an effective distributed-team operating model across India and Australia, with clear alignment and communication with leadership in the United States.
- Define and execute the TDP Insights and ADR strategy and roadmap in alignment with Atlassian’s broader data-platform and cloud-infrastructure goals.
- Translate enterprise, product, platform, and recovery requirements into measurable outcomes, milestones, and engineering plans.
- Surface delivery risks, cross-team dependencies, capacity constraints, and required trade-offs early.
- Establish clear ownership and decision-making responsibilities across TDP Insights, ADR, TDP data platforms, and partner teams.
- Deliver actionable insights into platform health, customer adoption, cost, data movement, compliance, and recovery readiness.
- Improve recovery confidence through common capabilities, clear standards, validation, and repeatable restore exercises.
- Own the operational health of TDP Insights and ADR capabilities, including availability, data quality, performance, security, compliance, and recoverability.
- Establish service-level objectives, operational indicators, review mechanisms, and sustainable on-call practices.
- Establish trustworthy measures for backup coverage, restore validation, RPO and RTO performance, and recovery readiness.
- Lead the response to material incidents and ensure that lessons produce durable technical and organizational improvements.
- Ensure that TDP Insights and ADR support enterprise needs such as data residency, encryption, disaster recovery, regulated environments, and multi-cloud operation.
- Maintain clear visibility into customer and recovery commitments and intervene when delivery, reliability, or data-integrity risks threaten those outcomes.
- Partner with senior technical leaders to establish architectural direction and make high-quality technical decisions.
- Guide the evolution of large-scale telemetry, analytics, backup, restore, and recovery capabilities across multiple cloud providers and specialized operating environments.
- Ensure designs account for scalability, data locality, security, compliance, data quality, migration safety, operability, and reversibility.
- Establish technical and operational standards for data collection, processing, analytics, recovery validation, and integration with TDP data platforms.
- Balance near-term delivery with platform simplification, lifecycle management, cloud portability, and reduction of operational burden.
- Establish clear technical and operational contracts with storage, streaming, control-plane, infrastructure, and customer teams.
- Build trusted partnerships across product, engineering, security, compliance, reliability, infrastructure, FinOps, and customer-facing teams.
- Coordinate effectively across engineering teams in India and Australia and leadership stakeholders in the United States.
- Resolve cross-organizational dependencies through explicit owners, acceptance criteria, and delivery dates.
- Represent TDP Insights and ADR in engineering reviews, leadership forums, operational reviews, architecture discussions, and portfolio planning.
- Use platform telemetry and operational evidence to inform investment, reliability, capacity, and customer-adoption decisions.
- Own the cost posture of the team’s capabilities, including infrastructure efficiency, demand forecasting, unit economics, and cost attribution.
- Make investment decisions that prioritize customer trust, strategic platform value, and sustainable cost efficiency.
What the employer is looking for
- Significant engineering leadership experience.
- Demonstrated success building or operating a business-critical distributed system, data platform, analytics platform, storage service, resiliency platform,...
Benefits and support
- Flexible work arrangements (office, home, or a combination)
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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