Senior Engineering Manager - Search Infrastructure

Senior Engineering Manager, Search Infrastructure 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. Search Platform 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. Responsibilities 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. Qualifications Requirements: Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams that build and operate large-scale distributed systems. Demonstrated success managing senior engineers and driving delivery in complex, cross-team environments. Experience growing staff-level technical leadership and beyond. Strong technical judgment in areas such as reliability, performance, scalability, observability, and system design. Ability to influence architecture and engineering standards beyond the immediate team. Experience operating business-critical services with clear ownership of availability, incident response, and operational health. Ability to translate broad organizational goals into clear team priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes. Experience managing through technical ambiguity, organizational change, or evolving team charters. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, especially with senior technical and organizational leaders. Strongly Preferred: Experience with search infrastructure, indexing systems, large-scale data pipelines for search/ML, storage engines, or low-latency retrieval systems. Track record of leading platform teams that serve many internal customers and balance roadmap work with reliability investment. 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. Experience Level Senior Level