Lead engineering teams building and operating Atlassian’s Plato Data Platform across streaming ingestion and MPP query/serving. Own reliability, performance, cost, scale, data quality, and observability for high-scale production infrastructure. Manage hiring, coaching, retention, and development of senior engineers and managers while providing technical leadership in distributed systems, Kubernetes, and cloud data infrastructure on GCP or AWS.
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Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the team, technical direction, architectural evolution, and operational excellence of Atlassian's foundational data platform.
Our platform powers the data behind critical experiences across the company-from rich in-product analytics in Jira, JSM, and Confluence, to dedicated solutions like Atlassian Analytics, the Teamwork Graph (TWG), and AI-native capabilities like Rovo. In this high-leverage, cross-organizational role, you and your team's decisions will directly shape how hundreds of thousands of organizations explore, understand, and act on their data.
We seek leaders who are eager to shape the future and believe in the power of collaboration to achieve extraordinary results together.
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit
Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the team, technical direction, architectural evolution, and operational excellence of Atlassian's foundational data platform.
Our platform powers the data behind critical experiences across the company-from rich in-product analytics in Jira, JSM, and Confluence, to dedicated solutions like Atlassian Analytics, the Teamwork Graph (TWG), and AI-native capabilities like Rovo. In this high-leverage, cross-organizational role, you and your team's decisions will directly shape how hundreds of thousands of organizations explore, understand, and act on their data.
We seek leaders who are eager to shape the future and believe in the power of collaboration to achieve extraordinary results together.
- Lead, grow and retain a high-performing team of engineers building and operating Atlassian's data platform (streaming ingestion on Flink and/or MPP query/serving on StarRocks).
- Own the technical direction, architecture and roadmap for your area, partnering with senior ICs on the largest and most complex problems from design to launch.
- Drive operational excellence for high-scale data platform systems in production-reliability, SLOs, on-call, performance, cost and data quality/observability.
- Deliver platform capabilities that are consumed by other teams and products across Atlassian.
- Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects and organizations.
- Hire, coach and develop engineers; set clear expectations, give meaningful feedback, and grow the next generation of technical leaders.
- Set the standard for engineering quality-thorough code reviews, sound architecture, and strong documentation.
- Manage delivery: planning, prioritisation, execution and stakeholder communication across a full-lifecycle platform team.
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
- 10+ years in software engineering with 4+ years managing engineering teams (managing senior ICs and/or managers preferred at M60).
- Must have led teams building/operating data platform systems in streaming/ingestion (Flink, or Spark as an alternative) and/or MPP query engines (StarRocks, or alternatives such as Trino / Apache Pinot / Apache Doris).
- Proven track record of operational management of high-scale data platform systems in production - reliability, performance, cost and data-quality/observability.
- Strong technical depth in distributed systems. kubernetes and large-scale data infrastructure (GCP/AWS).
- Proven people leadership: hiring, growing, coaching and retaining senior engineers.
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit
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