Hiring: Senior Engineering Manager - Atlassian Government Cloud Company: Atlassian Location: San Francisco, CA 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, Canaries, Automated Release Gates, Rollback, SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI, SOX, Change Management, Separation of Duties, Audit Compliance, Go/No-Go Decisions, Incident Escalation, On-Call Rotation, Platform Engineering, Cross-Functional Collaboration, People Leadership Experience: - Senior Manager level experience leading engineering teams - Hands-on leadership role setting strategy and growing people - Experience managing, coaching, and hiring a team of 10-15 software engineers - 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 teams - 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 - Go/no-go decision framework ownership - Trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive rollout and canaries, automated release gates, and one-click rollback - Building bench strength and healthy on-call and workload rotation - Adapting tooling to scale processes and retiring toil and manual checklists - Ensuring releases meet change management, separation-of-duties, and audit requirements (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI, or SOX as applicable) - Crisp communication of status, risk, and decisions to senior leadership - Converting post-release findings into process or tooling changes Qualifications: - Not explicitly stated in the provided text Compensation: At Atlassian, compensation programs are designed to be equitable, explainable, and competitive. Base pay is set within the range based on each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience. This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity. United States geographic pay zones for this role (current base pay ranges 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!