Hiring: Senior Engineering Manager - Atlassian Government Cloud Company: Atlassian Location: Mountain View, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 17:58:32 Employment Type: Full-Time Target Skills & Keywords: Release Management, Government Cloud, Continuous Delivery, 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, Hiring, Coaching, Roadmap Strategy, Cross-Functional Collaboration Experience: - Senior engineering leadership role managing a team of 10-15 software engineers - Hands-on leadership experience owning release processes end to end: planning, branch and versioning strategy, release readiness, cutover, verification, and rollback - Experience running release calendars and dependency maps across multiple teams - Experience owning go/no-go decisions and defining release readiness criteria - Experience serving as escalation point for release-impacting incidents, including out-of-hours for major launches - Experience defining multi-quarter roadmaps to reduce release risk and cycle time - Experience partnering with Engineering, Product, QA, SRE, Support, Security, Docs, Marketing, and Legal/Compliance - Experience running blameless post-release reviews - Experience ensuring releases meet change management, separation-of-duties, and audit requirements Required Skills: - Release process ownership for Government releases: planning, branch and versioning strategy, release readiness, cutover, verification, and rollback - Release calendar and dependency management across teams - Go/no-go decision ownership and criteria definition - Incident escalation management for release-impacting incidents - Team management, coaching, and hiring for 10-15 software engineers - Performance and career development management - On-call and workload rotation design - Multi-quarter roadmap definition: trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive rollout and canaries, automated release gates, one-click rollback - Tooling adaptation and toil/manual checklist reduction - Cross-functional alignment of release readiness with launch readiness - Clear communication of status, risk, and decisions to senior leadership - Blameless post-release reviews and process/tooling improvements - Compliance and audit readiness: change management, separation-of-duties, and audit requirements (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI, or SOX as applicable) Qualifications: - Proven experience leading and growing teams of experienced software engineers - Strong background in release engineering, platform infrastructure, and continuous delivery - Experience building and maturing release components end to end - Ability to set strategy while remaining hands-on in critical launch decisions - Experience supporting multiple product teams and hundreds of service teams through platform infrastructure - Strong stakeholder communication skills with senior leadership - Experience driving a shift from continuous delivery to operator-approved releases - Knowledge of compliance and audit frameworks relevant to Government Cloud 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. United States geographic pay zones for new hires: - 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!