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The Role
Leads a team of 10–15 software engineers responsible for Atlassian Government Cloud release infrastructure and processes. Owns release planning, readiness, go/no-go decisions, cutover, verification, rollback, incident escalation, and compliance. Defines a multi-quarter roadmap covering trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive rollouts, automated gates, and rollback automation. Partners across engineering, product, QA, SRE, security, and compliance while coaching team members and improving release reliability.
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Engineering | San Francisco, United States | Remote, Remote | New York, United States | Seattle, United States | Mountain View, United States or Remote | Austin, United States | Washington DC, United States
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
Shipping software is the moment all of engineering's work becomes real for customers - and the moment risk is highest. We're looking for a Senior Manager to build and drive Atlassian Government Cloud platform components, especially building and maturing release components end to end!
You'll lead a team of experienced software engineers who build the infra to support multiple product teams and hundreds of service teams, own the go/no-go decision framework, and drive our shift from continuous delivery to operator-approved releases. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll set strategy and grow people, coach the direction and team, and you'll also be in the room for the hard launch calls.
What you'll do
Own the function
Lead and grow the team
Drive the strategy
Partner broadly
Keep us compliant and auditable
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.
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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
Shipping software is the moment all of engineering's work becomes real for customers - and the moment risk is highest. We're looking for a Senior Manager to build and drive Atlassian Government Cloud platform components, especially building and maturing release components end to end!
You'll lead a team of experienced software engineers who build the infra to support multiple product teams and hundreds of service teams, own the go/no-go decision framework, and drive our shift from continuous delivery to operator-approved releases. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll set strategy and grow people, coach the direction and team, and you'll also be in the room for the hard launch calls.
What you'll do
Own the function
- Own the release process for Government releases: planning, branch and versioning strategy, release readiness, cutover, verification, and rollback.
- Run the release calendar and dependency map across teams; make the tradeoffs when timelines, quality signals, and commitments collide.
- Own go/no-go decisions and the criteria behind them. Define what "ready to ship" means, in writing, and hold the bar.
- Serve as the escalation point for release-impacting incidents, including out-of-hours for major launches.
Lead and grow the team
- Manage, coach, and hire a team of 10-15 software engineers; set clear expectations, run performance and career development, and build a healthy on-call and workload rotation.
- Build bench strength so no release depends on one person's memory
Drive the strategy
- Define a multi-quarter roadmap to reduce release risk and cycle time: trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive rollout and canaries, automated release gates, and one-click rollback
- Partner with other platform teams to adapt the tooling that makes the process scale, and retire toil and manual checklists.
Partner broadly
- Work with Engineering, Product, QA, SRE, Support, Security, Docs, Marketing, and Legal/Compliance to align release readiness with launch readiness.
- Communicate status, risk, and decisions crisply to senior leadership
- Run blameless post-release reviews and convert findings into process or tooling changes.
Keep us compliant and auditable
- Ensure releases meet change management, separation-of-duties, and audit requirements (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI, or SOX as applicable) without turning delivery into paperwork.
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.
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Skills Required
- Experience leading, managing, coaching, and hiring software engineers
- Experience owning software release processes, including planning, readiness, cutover, verification, rollback, and go/no-go decisions
- Experience developing release engineering or platform strategies across multiple teams
- Experience with trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive rollouts, canary releases, automated release gates, or rollback automation
- Experience with change management, separation of duties, audit, or compliance requirements
- Ability to communicate risks, decisions, and status to senior leadership
What the Team is Saying
Tiffany
Engineering Senior Associate, United States
Gautam
Software Engineer, United States
Tygrr
Product Manager, United States
Ashleigh
Frontend Engineer, United States
Jensen
Senior Frontend Software Engineer, United States
Javier
Senior Solutions Engineer, United States
Atlassian Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — Parental support is highlighted through generous paid leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, plus fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits. Family-building coverage also includes IVF and fertility preservation.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is described as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, HSA/FSA access, and extensive mental-health resources. Support includes counseling and crisis services.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are noted as a standout feature in the U.S., including a company 401(k) match with immediate vesting. This structure supports long-term savings as part of total compensation.
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What We Do
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Why Work With Us
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