Senior Engineering Manager - Trust Engineering

Job Description

Atlassian helps teams everywhere change the world through the power of software, and we are looking for a well-rounded Senior Engineering Manager for Atlassian's Trust Engineering team. We have teams in the USA, Australia, and India. We are responsible for building and operating mature platforms/software systems to improve the entire company's security and trust & safety posture.

As a Senior Engineering Manager in the Trust org, you’ll be a technical leader and people manager, responsible for guiding your team to technical decisions for production services, helping prioritize and organize the team's work, manage projects and programs within and across departments, and providing career growth and mentorship opportunities to your team.

If you are a strong leader passionate about improving security, this role presents a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact!

What you'll do

• Be a people manager for your engineers (10-15 people).

• Own the delivery of critical projects, multiple streams of work at once in the Security and Trust domains.

• You have an interest in working with colleagues to understand our products and improve existing security infrastructure.

• Lead your team through incidents and high operational load, navigate ambiguity and make trade-offs, hard decisions.

Responsibilities

• Team management: Hire, build, and retain an open, trusting, operationally mature culture and team. Lead and mentor a team of high-performing technical professionals, fostering a culture of security and collaboration.

• Collaboration and communication: Foster a security-focused culture within the product development process, communicating updates, risks, and strategies to executive leadership and stakeholders.

• Leadership development: Mentor and develop security practitioners, contributing to large-scale security projects and ensuring successful implementation.

• Operational excellence: Define appropriate operational and quality metrics and ensure they are achieved and maintained. You build it, you run it.

• Domain oversight: Implement and enforce security standards, policies, and procedures for product development, collaborating on risk assessments and mitigation strategies.

Basic qualifications

• A track record of delivering projects on time, in scope, and within quality goals in an Agile/Lean environment.

• 5+ years of software, infrastructure, or security engineering experience.

• 8+ years managing and growing engineers and/or managers.

• Experience providing actionable feedback and coaching engineers.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience building SaaS software with a focus on operational excellence.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with scalable, high-performance systems that are highly available.

• A strong understanding of how to use metrics to guide decisions.

• Experience reducing toil, work with teams with high operational load.

• Familiarity with security systems, practices, processes.

• Bonus if you have led security engineering teams before.

It's great, but not required, if you have

• Cloud engineering/security experience.

• Deep understanding of cybersecurity principles, threat landscape, and best practices.

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $205,700 - $274,300

Zone B: $185,200 - $246,900

Zone C: $170,800 - $227,700

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

Our perks & benefits

Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.

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.