Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform

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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
Your future team
To become a 100-year company, we need a world-class engineering organisation made up of empowered teams who have the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers.
As a Senior Engineering Manager - Data Platform, you'll lead a team of highly skilled engineers working on core data platform, infrastructure and services that power analytics, insights, and data-driven decision making across Atlassian.
In this role, you will:

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of engineers working on critical data platform components.
• Drive the delivery of scalable and reliable infrastructure for running data workloads
• Partner closely with product, analytics, and engineering teams to understand evolving needs and shape the platform roadmap.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Guide architectural decisions, support design reviews, and provide hands-on technical mentorship.
• Promote data reliability, cost efficiency, security, and privacy by default across data tooling and practices.
• Enable a healthy and inclusive team environment through strong people management and coaching.

Your background:

• 2+ years of engineering management experience leading distributed teams in a high-growth environment.
• 6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, ideally in data infrastructure or backend systems.
• Deep understanding of modern data ecosystems (e.g., Spark, Iceberg/Delta, Databricks, Airflow, Kafka, dbt, DataHub).
• A strong track record of delivering large-scale, high-impact platform initiatives.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence across orgs.
• A people-first leadership mindset: you're passionate about team health, growth, and performance.

It's Great If You Also Have

• Experience in cost optimization, data lifecycle management, or platform observability.
• Familiarity with modern cloud data architecture (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Prior contributions to open-source data tools or platforms.

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.
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 .