Senior Engineering Manager, Search Infrastructure

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.

At Atlassian, we build products that help teams move work forward. Search is a critical part of that mission: it connects people and agents to knowledge, content, and actions when they need them most. Within Search Platform, engineering leaders work on problems that sit at the intersection of distributed systems, data infrastructure, developer platforms, product impact, and operational excellence.

We value leaders who raise the bar on technical quality while building healthy, high-trust teams.

We care deeply about customer impact, service reliability, and scalable platform design.

We believe strong engineering management combines clear execution, thoughtful people leadership, and sound technical judgment.

In this role, you’ll lead a team responsible for critical search platform capabilities that underpin performance, reliability, and scale.

Set technical and execution direction for a team working on large-scale search infrastructure.

Partner with senior engineers, product, and adjacent platform teams to define roadmaps, manage trade-offs, and deliver durable platform improvements.

Lead through incident readiness, operational reviews, capacity planning, and architecture decisions for high-availability systems.

Hire, coach, and develop engineers and managers, creating clarity, accountability, and growth across the team.

Improve engineering effectiveness by strengthening planning, prioritization, technical design, and delivery rhythms.

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.