Senior Engineering Manager - SRE
Atlassian · Bangalore · 5+ yrs experience · Posted 2025-10-01
About the role
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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company. Your Future Org 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. Engineering at Atlassian prioritizes initiatives that advance AI and support our customers' transition to the cloud while consistently delivering maximum value through our core product suite - Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket. We seek individuals who are eager to shape the future and believe in the power of collaboration to achieve extraordinary results together. Your Future Team We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers who are supporting the build of an exciting new infrastructure platform. Your team will be responsible for using software engineering principles to reliably scale the Cloud infrastructure that underpins some of our products as well as the products themselves. Responsibilities Responsibilities You’re an experienced manager, coaching engineers and technical leaders who report to you, supporting them in their professional development to unlock their potential, and encouraging them to step outside their comfort zone to grow and excel. You’ll also play an important role in the organization's leadership team, working with other engineering managers, architects, and technical program managers to steer the organization by contributing to the strategy and helping determine the right problems for the teams to invest in solving. Qualifications Minimum Qualifications Experience managing & growing technical leaders and teams A drive for operational excellence and experience with teams responsible for running mission-critical production services A passion for driving cultural change in technical excellence, quality and efficiency Familiarity with agile software development methodologies Preferred Qualifications 5+ years experience implementing reliability & scale principles and practices 3+ years experience influencing teams outside your own organization with data and insights A demonstrated ability to foster an innovation culture in your teams 5+ years experience with large scale distributed systems and microservices 3+ years experience developing and implementing a long term strategy for a team
Qualifications
- Experience managing & growing technical leaders and teams A drive for operational excellence and experience with teams responsible for running mission-critical production services A passion for driving cultural change in technical excellence, quality and efficiency
- Familiarity with agile software development methodologies Preferred Qualifications 5+ years experience implementing reliability & scale principles and practices 3+ years experience influencing teams outside your own organization with data and insights A demonstrated ability to foster an innovation culture in your teams 5+ years experience with large scale distributed systems and microservices 3+ years experience developing and implementing a long term strategy for a team
Responsibilities
- You’re an experienced manager, coaching engineers and technical leaders who report to you, supporting them in their professional development to unlock their potential, and encouraging them to step outside their comfort zone to grow and excel.
- You’ll also play an important role in the organization's leadership team, working with other engineering managers, architects, and technical program managers to steer the organization by
- contributing to the strategy and helping determine the right problems for the teams to invest in solving.