Senior Engineering Manager - Search Platform

Overview 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 The Search Platform Experience team is transforming how users discover information and use AI and machine learning in their daily work. As part of Atlassian's Rovo Experiences & Growth organisation, we build foundational capabilities for Rovo, our AI-powered search and knowledge platform. We are looking for a deeply technical Senior Engineering Manager who combines strong people leadership with hands-on software engineering experience. You will build and develop an exceptional engineering team while remaining actively engaged with the architecture and codebase, including contributing production code. You will partner with product, design, engineering, and machine learning leaders to shape our strategy and deliver intuitive, scalable, and reliable search experiences across Atlassian's products. Responsibilities Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team responsible for AI-powered search experiences.Shape the technical direction and long-term architecture of Search Platform Experience.Partner with product and design leaders to define roadmaps and turn ambiguous opportunities into clear plans and customer outcomes.Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture, production code, technical design, and code reviews.Guide the delivery of scalable, high-performance, accessible, and reliable frontend and full-stack experiences for Rovo and Atlassian Search.Partner with principal engineers, architects, and machine learning teams to solve complex search and discovery challenges.Lead multi-quarter initiatives involving globally distributed teams and cross-functional dependencies.Establish high standards for software quality, operational excellence, reliability, security, and continuous delivery. Compensation 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. This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity. Qualifications Significant experience leading and developing engineering teams that build large-scale web products or enterprise cloud solutions.Deep frontend or full-stack expertise using React, TypeScript, Node.js, Java or comparable modern technologies.Recent production software development experience and the ability to contribute effectively within a modern, large-scale codebase.Experience architecting and operating high-scale, multi-tenant SaaS products.Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and cloud platforms—ideally AWS.A track record of shaping technical strategy and delivering complex, multi-quarter initiatives across distributed teams.Experience partnering effectively with product, design, architecture, and machine learning teams.Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain strategy, progress, risks, and technical trade-offs to senior stakeholders. 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 . In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.