Hiring: Senior Engineering Manager - Core Engineering, Trusted Data Platform Company: Atlassian Location: Seattle, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 17:58:32 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords: Engineering Leadership, Data Platform, Relational Databases, Cloud Infrastructure, Reliability Engineering, SLOs, Data Residency, Encryption, Compliance, Disaster Recovery, Roadmap Strategy, Talent Development, Cross-team Collaboration Experience: - Proven experience leading and developing engineering managers and engineers - Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams through hiring, onboarding, and talent development - Experience defining and executing platform strategy and roadmaps aligned with broader data-platform and cloud-infrastructure goals - Experience owning operational health of critical platforms, including availability, durability, performance, security, compliance, and recoverability - Experience leading incident response and driving durable technical and organizational improvements - Experience managing capacity across strategic investments, customer commitments, operational work, and technical debt - Experience partnering with senior engineers, product and program leaders, infrastructure teams, and security specialists Required Skills: - Strong people leadership, coaching, and organizational development skills - Ability to translate enterprise, product, and platform requirements into measurable outcomes, milestones, and engineering plans - Ability to surface delivery risks, cross-team dependencies, capacity constraints, and trade-offs early - Expertise in establishing service-level objectives, operational indicators, review mechanisms, and sustainable on-call practices - Knowledge of managed relational database platforms and data-storage capabilities - Understanding of enterprise requirements including data residency, encryption, regulatory compliance, backup and recovery, and multi-cloud operations - Strong decision-making, ownership, and continuous improvement practices Qualifications: - Demonstrated success in building strong engineering organizations and operating highly reliable platforms - Ability to develop senior technical and leadership talent by delegating meaningful ownership - Strong collaboration skills across product, platform, infrastructure, and security teams - Ability to increase platform adoption by reducing integration complexity and delivering production-ready capabilities - Experience maintaining visibility into customer commitments and intervening when delivery or reliability risks threaten outcomes Compensation: Not specified in the provided job text. 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!