Lead a distributed engineering organization building developer infrastructure, AI measurement and evaluation frameworks, context retrieval pipelines, agentic workflow infrastructure, and developer tooling. Manage engineering managers and senior engineers, shape technical roadmaps, optimize reliability and costs, partner with product and executive leadership, and foster a high-trust engineering culture.
Engineering | San Francisco, United States | Remote, Remote
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.
Your future team
To be a 100-year company, we are proudly building a world-class engineering organization composed of empowered teams that are equipped with the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers.
In this role, you will:
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.
Your future team
To be a 100-year company, we are proudly building a world-class engineering organization composed of empowered teams that are equipped with the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers.
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.
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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Atlassian San Francisco, California, USA Office
Atlassian believes the future of work is distributed and offers our people the flexibility to help them do what’s important to them. And with few exceptions, we hire people anywhere we have a legal entity as long as they have eligible work rights and sufficient team time zone overlap.
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