Engineering Manager, Platform Services

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Atlassian is continuing to hire for all open roles with all interviewing and on-boarding done virtually due to COVID-19. Everyone new to the team, along with our current staff, will temporarily work from home until it is safe to return to our offices.

Are you a creative and talented leader who works hard to ship code early and often? Does working on capabilities that strengthen Atlassian's Cloud Platform appeal to you? Do you want to build services that power innovation across Atlassian's product portfolio for millions of users? If so, come join us at Atlassian and work on the Platform Services team!

As an Engineering Manager of the Platform Services team, you will manage the continual iteration and improvement to make Platform Services more awesome for Atlassian. You will work closely with product management and architects to innovate, build a feature roadmap, craft engineering delivery plans, define our measures of success and then drive towards the delivery. You will drive a team of Engineers and collaborate with the broader organization to ship customer value. We are looking for a passionate technical leader who will motivate the team members to excel and grow in their careers.

This role will also include, but is not limited to:

  • Playing an integral role in designing microservices based architecture
  • Driving complex, multi-team projects which impact many partner teams
  • Being on-call for operational support for services and participate in DevOps + Tech Ops
  • Mentoring team members, reviewing their work, and provide design guidance
  • On your first day, we'll expect you to have:

  • 2+ years in engineering management following Agile development processes
  • Breaking down problems into executable chunks and coordinating multiple engineers to deliver a solution
  • Demonstrated experience in mentoring and retaining talent
  • Ability to contribute to the technical and business strategy of the team
  • Strong programming experience in Java or similar languages, and foundation in data structures, algorithms and distributed system
  • Experience in AWS technologies like EC2, ELB, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, RDS and more. AWS experience can be substituted with experience in similar public clouds (i.e Azure)
  • BS (or higher) in CS or related field
  • It's great, but not required if you have:

  • Recent hands-on experience in developing high volume, robust micro services
  • API development and design with REST or GraphQL
  • More about our team

    The Platform Services team was the first team in our Mountain View office and has been very successful at developing key services that make up our cloud platform. Platform Services add key capabilities like a modern API Gateway, Notification Management, GraphQL API capabilities for Atlassian, and Guaranteed Event Delivery to Atlassian's PaaS, the foundation for all of Atlassian products for millions of users, and billions of requests per day. Robustness, high volume, and reliability are core features of our services. Joining the team means you get to work with modern technologies and a highly usable infrastructure platform as part of a tight-knit, dynamic team. You'll be operating your services in production by week two.

    The Platform Services team has substantial impact on helping our customers succeed, and we're committed to pushing current trends in search technology in order to build a distinctive experience across our brand.



    More about our benefits

    Whether you work in an office or a distributed team, Atlassian is highly collaborative and yes, fun! To support you at work (and play) we offer some fantastic perks: ample time off to relax and recharge, flexible working options, five paid volunteer days a year for your favourite cause, an annual allowance to support your learning & growth, unique ShipIt days, a company paid trip after five years and lots more.

    More about Atlassian

    Creating software that empowers everyone from small startups to the who’s who of tech is why we’re here. We build tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Trello to help teams across the world become more nimble, creative, and aligned—collaboration is the heart of every product we dream of at Atlassian. From Amsterdam and Austin, to Sydney and San Francisco, we’re looking for people who want to write the future and who believe that we can accomplish so much more together than apart. At Atlassian, we’re committed to an environment where everyone has the autonomy and freedom to thrive, as well as the support of like-minded colleagues who are motivated by a common goal to: Unleash the potential of every team.

    Additional Information

    We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians is the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of 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.