Senior Engineering Manager

Senior Engineering Manager

This is an opportunity to join a high-impact Growth team and learn how world-class experimentation works at scale. We're the Spark team — we light the fire for customer acquisition. We innovate, personalize, and run experiments on top-of-funnel Atlassian surfaces, and build AEO/SEO features that help millions discover and sign up for Atlassian products.

People Leadership & Team Health

• Lead and develop talent: Manage, mentor, and coach a team of engineers, supporting their individual career growth, skill development, and progression.
• Build a high-performing culture: Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe environment where continuous learning, feedback, and high standards thrive.
• Team composition & hiring: Partner with Talent Acquisition to attract, interview, and hire diverse engineering talent while maintaining balanced team capacity.
• Monitor team health: Proactively track and support team well-being, engagement, and operational sustainability.

Delivery & Outcome Ownership

• Own team outcomes: Drive execution across multiple top-of-funnel workstreams, ensuring the team delivers measurable customer and business value with speed and consistency.
• Prioritization & trade-offs: Make pragmatic delivery trade-offs between feature development, technical debt, reliability, and security.
• Process & workflow optimization: Establish and refine agile practices to streamline execution, remove blockers, and improve developer velocity.

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Technical direction: Deeply understand the team's architecture, systems, and dependencies to guide the medium-to-long-term technical strategy. Establish AEO methodologies that measure, influence, and simulate AEO Engines.
• Engineering excellence: Champion best practices across design reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, code quality, and the effective use of AI.
• System resilience: Partner with senior engineers to guide architectural decisions that ensure scalability, modularity, and maintainability.

Why Spark?

• Meaningful Impact Early: Your code ships to real users on Atlassian's acquisition surfaces from your first quarter.
• Learning and Collaboration: We partner with our teams and products to deliver the best personalized outcomes for our customers.
• A culture of measurement: We don't guess. We test, instrument, analyze, and decide based on data. Our metrics tie directly to the customer and the business.

Your Background:

• 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience).
• Strong foundational background in distributed systems, developer platforms, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), or developer tooling.
• Experience with applied AI/ML systems, LLMs, AI agents, MCP tooling, RAG, or AI evaluation frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with product managers, TPMs, and designers to shape product and platform strategy.