Hiring: Senior Engineering Manager - Atlassian Government Cloud Company: Atlassian Location: Austin, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 17:58:32 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords: Release Management, Government Cloud, Trunk-Based Development, Feature Flags, Progressive Rollout, Canary Deployments, Automated Release Gates, Rollback, Go/No-Go Decisions, SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI, SOX, Change Management, Separation of Duties, Audit Compliance, SRE, Platform Engineering, People Leadership, Roadmap Strategy Experience: - Senior management experience leading engineering teams - Hands-on leadership experience in release engineering or platform engineering - Experience owning end-to-end release processes: planning, branch and versioning strategy, release readiness, cutover, verification, and rollback - Experience running release calendars and dependency maps across multiple teams - Experience serving as escalation point for release-impacting incidents, including out-of-hours for major launches - Experience managing, coaching, and hiring teams of 10-15 software engineers - Experience defining multi-quarter roadmaps to reduce release risk and cycle time - Experience partnering cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, QA, SRE, Support, Security, Docs, Marketing, and Legal/Compliance - Experience communicating status, risk, and decisions to senior leadership - Experience running blameless post-release reviews Required Skills: - Release process ownership for Government releases - Go/no-go decision framework ownership - Trunk-based development - Feature flags - Progressive rollout and canaries - Automated release gates - One-click rollback - Performance management and career development - On-call and workload rotation management - Change management, separation-of-duties, and audit requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI, or SOX) - Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder alignment - Crisp communication to senior leadership Qualifications: - Proven experience building and maturing release components end to end - Experience leading teams that build infrastructure supporting multiple product teams and hundreds of service teams - Ability to drive shift from continuous delivery to operator-approved releases - Strong strategic thinking and people leadership skills - Ability to make tradeoffs when timelines, quality signals, and commitments collide - Ability to build bench strength and reduce single-person dependency - Ability to retire toil and manual checklists through tooling and process improvements Compensation: At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range. This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity. Pay Ranges - In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are: - Zone A: $209,700 - $273,775 - Zone B: $188,730 - $246,398 - Zone C: $174,051 - $227,233 Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don’t miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!