Hiring: Senior Engineering Manager - Atlassian Government Cloud Company: Atlassian Location: New York, NY 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, SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI, SOX, Change Management, Separation of Duties, Audit Compliance, Go/No-Go Decision Framework, Continuous Delivery, Team Leadership, Hiring, Coaching, On-Call Rotation, Roadmap Strategy, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Incident Escalation, Blameless Post-Release Reviews Experience: - Senior engineering leadership experience managing teams 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 communicating status, risk, and decisions to senior leadership - Experience running blameless post-release reviews Required Skills: - Release process ownership for Government releases: planning, branch and versioning strategy, release readiness, cutover, verification, and rollback - Release calendar and dependency map management across teams - Go/no-go decision ownership and criteria definition - Escalation point for release-impacting incidents, including out-of-hours for major launches - Team management, coaching, and hiring of 10-15 software engineers - Performance and career development management - Building healthy on-call and workload rotation - Building bench strength to avoid single points of failure - Multi-quarter roadmap definition: trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive rollout and canaries, automated release gates, one-click rollback - Partnering with platform teams to adapt tooling and retire toil and manual checklists - Cross-functional collaboration with Engineering, Product, QA, SRE, Support, Security, Docs, Marketing, and Legal/Compliance - Crisp communication of status, risk, and decisions to senior leadership - Running blameless post-release reviews and converting findings into process or tooling changes - Ensuring releases meet change management, separation-of-duties, and audit requirements (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI, or SOX as applicable) Qualifications: - Proven experience as a senior engineering manager or equivalent leadership role - Strong background in release engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure - Experience leading and growing teams of experienced software engineers - Experience driving shift from continuous delivery to operator-approved releases - Experience building and maturing release components end to end - Experience supporting multiple product teams and hundreds of service teams through infrastructure - Experience with compliance and audit requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI, SOX) - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills Compensation: At Atlassian, compensation programs are designed to be equitable, explainable, and competitive. Base pay is set based on each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience 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!