Atlassian provides tools to help every team unleash their full potential.
The Role
Leads and develops software engineering teams responsible for customer acquisition, experimentation, personalization, and SEO/AEO features. Owns delivery outcomes, prioritization, technical strategy, architecture, system resilience, engineering excellence, and team health. Partners with product managers, TPMs, designers, and recruiting teams while guiding distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and applied AI/ML initiatives.
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Engineering | Austin, United States | Remote, Remote | San Francisco, United States | Seattle, United States | New York, 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
This is an opportunity to join a high-impact Growth team and learn how world-class experimentation works at scale. We're the Spark team - we light the fire for customer acquisition. We innovate, personalize, and run experiments on top-of-funnel Atlassian surfaces, and build AEO/SEO features that help millions discover and sign up for Atlassian products.
People Leadership & Team Health
Delivery & Outcome Ownership
Technical Leadership & Architecture
Why Spark?
Your background:
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
This is an opportunity to join a high-impact Growth team and learn how world-class experimentation works at scale. We're the Spark team - we light the fire for customer acquisition. We innovate, personalize, and run experiments on top-of-funnel Atlassian surfaces, and build AEO/SEO features that help millions discover and sign up for Atlassian products.
People Leadership & Team Health
- Lead and develop talent: Manage, mentor, and coach a team of engineers, supporting their individual career growth, skill development, and progression.
- Build a high-performing culture: Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe environment where continuous learning, feedback, and high standards thrive.
- Team composition & hiring: Partner with Talent Acquisition to attract, interview, and hire diverse engineering talent while maintaining balanced team capacity.
- Monitor team health: Proactively track and support team well-being, engagement, and operational sustainability.
Delivery & Outcome Ownership
- Own team outcomes: Drive execution across multiple top-of--the-funnel workstreams, ensuring the team delivers measurable customer and business value with speed and consistency.
- Prioritization & trade-offs: Make pragmatic delivery trade-offs between feature development, technical debt, reliability, and security.
- Process & workflow optimization: Establish and refine agile practices to streamline execution, remove blockers, and improve developer velocity.
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Technical direction: Deeply understand the team's architecture, systems, and dependencies to guide the medium-to-long-term technical strategy. Establish AEO methodologies that measure, influence, and simulate AEO Engines.
- Engineering excellence: Champion best practices across design reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, code quality, and the effective use of AI.
- System resilience: Partner with senior engineers to guide architectural decisions that ensure scalability, modularity, and maintainability.
Why Spark?
- Meaningful Impact Early: Your code ships to real users on Atlassian's acquisition surfaces from your first quarter
- Learning and Collaboration: We partner with our teams and products to deliver the best personalized outcomes for our customers
- A culture of measurement: We don't guess. We test, instrument, analyze, and decide based on data. Our metrics tie directly to the customer and the business.
Your background:
- 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience).
- Strong foundational background in distributed systems, developer platforms, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), or developer tooling.
- Experience with applied AI/ML systems, LLMs, AI agents, MCP tooling, RAG, or AI evaluation frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience partnering with product managers, TPMs, and designers to shape product and platform strategy.
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
- 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams
- 2+ years of experience managing engineering managers or leading senior/principal engineers
- Bachelor's or Master's degree, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong foundational background in distributed systems, developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, or developer tooling
- Experience with applied AI/ML systems, LLMs, AI agents, MCP tooling, RAG, or AI evaluation frameworks
- Experience partnering with product managers, technical program managers, and designers on product and platform strategy
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 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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