Hiring: Senior Engineering Manager - Atlassian Government Cloud Company: Atlassian Location: Seattle, WA 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 Decision Framework, Continuous Delivery, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Team Leadership, Roadmap Strategy, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Incident Escalation, Blameless Post-Release Reviews 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 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 - Experience ensuring releases meet change management, separation-of-duties, and audit requirements Required Skills: - Release process ownership for Government releases - Branch and versioning strategy - Release readiness, cutover, verification, and rollback - Release calendar and dependency mapping - Go/no-go decision framework - Incident escalation management - Team management, coaching, and hiring - Performance and career development - On-call and workload rotation management - Multi-quarter roadmap definition - Trunk-based development - Feature flags - Progressive rollout and canaries - Automated release gates - One-click rollback - Tooling adaptation and scaling - Toil and manual checklist reduction - Cross-functional partnership - Crisp communication to senior leadership - Blameless post-release reviews - Change management compliance - Separation-of-duties compliance - Audit requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI, SOX) Qualifications: - Experience building and maturing release components end to end - Experience leading a team of experienced software engineers building infrastructure to support multiple product teams and hundreds of service teams - Experience driving shift from continuous delivery to operator-approved releases - Ability to build bench strength so no release depends on one person's memory - Ability to hold the bar on release readiness criteria - Ability to make tradeoffs when timelines, quality signals, and commitments collide - Ability to keep delivery compliant and auditable without turning it into paperwork Compensation: - Base pay ranges for new hires in each zone: - Zone A: $209,700 - $273,775 - Zone B: $188,730 - $246,398 - Zone C: $174,051 - $227,233 - This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity. 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!