Hiring: Senior Engineering Manager - Atlassian Government Cloud Company: Atlassian Location: Washington, DC Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 17:58:32 Employment Type: Full-Time Target Skills & Keywords: Release Management, Government Cloud, CI/CD, 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, Incident Escalation, On-Call Rotation, Team Leadership, Roadmap Strategy, Cross-Functional Collaboration, SRE, QA, Security, Compliance 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 - One-click rollback - Change management, separation-of-duties, and audit requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI, or SOX) - Team management, coaching, and hiring - Performance and career development - On-call and workload rotation management - Cross-functional collaboration - Incident escalation management - Process and tooling improvement Qualifications: - Experience leading a team of 10-15 software engineers - Experience building and maturing release components end to end - Experience building infrastructure to support multiple product teams and hundreds of service teams - Experience driving shift from continuous delivery to operator-approved releases - Experience with compliance and audit requirements without turning delivery into paperwork - Ability to build bench strength so no release depends on one person's memory - Ability to make tradeoffs when timelines, quality signals, and commitments collide - Ability to define what "ready to ship" means and hold the bar Compensation: - 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!