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The Role
Lead a high-performing engineering team building and operating large-scale search infrastructure. Set technical direction, manage roadmaps and cross-team trade-offs, oversee reliability, incident readiness, capacity planning, and architecture decisions, and improve engineering execution. Hire, coach, and develop engineers and managers while translating organizational goals into measurable priorities and outcomes. Partner with senior technical, product, and platform stakeholders to deliver scalable, reliable, high-availability search capabilities.
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Engineering | Bengaluru, India | Remote, India
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.
Search Platform
At Atlassian, we build products that help teams move work forward. Search is a critical part of that mission: it connects people and agents to knowledge, content, and actions when they need them most. Within Search Platform, engineering leaders work on problems that sit at the intersection of distributed systems, data infrastructure, developer platforms, product impact, and operational excellence.
In this role, you'll lead a team responsible for critical search platform capabilities that underpin performance, reliability, and scale.
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.
Requirements:
Strongly Preferred:
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.
Search Platform
At Atlassian, we build products that help teams move work forward. Search is a critical part of that mission: it connects people and agents to knowledge, content, and actions when they need them most. Within Search Platform, engineering leaders work on problems that sit at the intersection of distributed systems, data infrastructure, developer platforms, product impact, and operational excellence.
- We value leaders who raise the bar on technical quality while building healthy, high-trust teams.
- We care deeply about customer impact, service reliability, and scalable platform design.
- We believe strong engineering management combines clear execution, thoughtful people leadership, and sound technical judgment.
In this role, you'll lead a team responsible for critical search platform capabilities that underpin performance, reliability, and scale.
- Set technical and execution direction for a team working on large-scale search infrastructure.
- Partner with senior engineers, product, and adjacent platform teams to define roadmaps, manage trade-offs, and deliver durable platform improvements.
- Lead through incident readiness, operational reviews, capacity planning, and architecture decisions for high-availability systems.
- Hire, coach, and develop engineers and managers, creating clarity, accountability, and growth across the team.
- Improve engineering effectiveness by strengthening planning, prioritization, technical design, and delivery rhythms.
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.
Requirements:
- Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams that build and operate large-scale distributed systems.
- Demonstrated success managing senior engineers and driving delivery in complex, cross-team environments. Experience growing staff-level technical leadership and beyond.
- Strong technical judgment in areas such as reliability, performance, scalability, observability, and system design. Ability to influence architecture and engineering standards beyond the immediate team.
- Experience operating business-critical services with clear ownership of availability, incident response, and operational health.
- Ability to translate broad organizational goals into clear team priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes. Experience managing through technical ambiguity, organizational change, or evolving team charters.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, especially with senior technical and organizational leaders.
Strongly Preferred:
- Experience with search infrastructure, indexing systems, large-scale data pipelines for search/ML, storage engines, or low-latency retrieval systems.
- Track record of leading platform teams that serve many internal customers and balance roadmap work with reliability investment.
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
Skills Required
- Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams that build and operate large-scale distributed systems.
- Demonstrated success managing senior engineers and driving delivery in complex, cross-team environments.
- Experience growing staff-level technical leadership and beyond.
- Strong technical judgment in reliability, performance, scalability, observability, and system design.
- Ability to influence architecture and engineering standards beyond the immediate team.
- Experience operating business-critical services with ownership of availability, incident response, and operational health.
- Ability to translate broad organizational goals into clear team priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Experience managing through technical ambiguity, organizational change, or evolving team charters.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with senior technical and organizational leaders.
- Experience with search infrastructure, indexing systems, large-scale data pipelines for search or machine learning, storage engines, or low-latency retrieval systems.
- Track record of leading platform teams serving many internal customers while balancing roadmap work with reliability investment.
What the Team is Saying
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Atlassian Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave spans 26 weeks for birthing parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents, alongside inclusive family-formation benefits such as fertility treatment, adoption, and surrogacy. Additional supports include menopause resources and caregiving-related programs.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a U.S. 401(k) company match with immediate vesting and multiple contribution options. These are complemented by other financial wellbeing tools like HSAs/FSAs.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage is paired with mental-health resources, disability and life insurance, and options such as HSA/FSA. Descriptions also point to solid plan choices with access to counseling, coaching, and 24/7 support.
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The Company
What We Do
Atlassian creates teamwork solutions for high-performing teams. Our portfolio of collaboration and work management software products includes Jira, Confluence, Trello, Loom and Rovo. More than 300,000 businesses worldwide rely on Atlassian’s technology, including 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Our solutions support various business teams and they help organizations plan, track, and deliver their biggest ideas together.
Why Work With Us
At Atlassian, we believe we can accomplish so much more together than apart — which is why everything from our tooling — to our distributed workforce — to how our teams are structured is rooted in collaboration. Come join us and help unleash the potential of every team.
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