Engineering Manager

In this role, you will:

• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing, distributed full-stack engineering team across levels in global locations.

• Drive full-stack developer experience and platform capabilities across the design system, championing theming infrastructure, rapid prototyping tools, AI-powered accessibility (A11y) remediation, and developer tooling that unblock product teams to build high-quality experiences faster.

• Scale and evolve Atlassian's in-house translation and localization platform, improving translation quality, latency, and adoption across product surfaces to support global customer experiences.

• Partner with design, product, and engineering peers to embed accessibility, internationalization, and quality standards directly into platform tools and automated guardrails.

• Drive operational excellence, release hygiene, and governance across shared packages and services, balancing platform stability with fast developer iteration.

• Be the engineering anchor in triad planning with Design, Product Management, and TPM partners, driving roadmap alignment and quarterly capacity allocation.

• Cultivate an open, high-trust engineering culture focused on craft excellence, psychological safety, and continuous technical growth.

Your background:

• 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams in platform or full-stack domains.

• Proven track record leading senior and principal engineers, guiding execution, and mentoring talent within the team.

• Strong full-stack technical background spanning backend service architecture (distributed systems, resilient microservices) paired with modern web foundations (React, TypeScript, browser runtime performance).

• Experience with design system infrastructure, developer platforms, prototyping tooling, localization systems, or AI-assisted developer workflows at scale.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate closely with design managers, product managers, and TPMs to balance design quality with platform scalability and developer velocity.

• Track record of leading distributed, asynchronous engineering teams across multiple time zones.

• Passion for technical mentorship, operational rigor, and building high-trust team cultures.

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 go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

About Atlassian

At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.

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