Senior Engineering Manager - Atlassian Cloud Storage

Engineering | Sydney, Australia | Remote, Remote | Full-Time

Working at Atlassian

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We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of 10 backend engineers. You'll be part of the Atlassian Cloud Storage Engineering Team and will report to the Head of Engineering based in the US. You will lead a team responsible for developing and operating a cloud scale PostgreSQL platform for all of Atlassian. This service is at the core of our infrastructure and requires high quality while moving fast to keep up with our customers' needs.

What you'll do:

• Be responsible for high-quality software delivery, grow individuals and groom leaders on the team and contribute to architecture

• Work with leadership and partners to strategize, evolve a roadmap and provide high quality solutions

• Identify blockers, goals, success metrics ensuring awareness, OKR/roadmap awareness, and expectations

• Manage projects, process, partners and timelines

• Manage a growing team of Tech Leads and Software Engineers

• Hire a team of Senior and Principal Engineers

Your background:

• 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams

• Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree

• Expertise with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Scala is required.

• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure)

• Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time

If you've got these skills, even better:

• Proficiency in K8s and Cloud Native technologies

• Experience building and operating world-scale storage systems

• Proficiency in PostgreSQL, RDS, Aurora, or other high scale cloud databases

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.