Senior Engineering Manager - Trust Engineering

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.

Responsibilities

Job Description

Atlassian helps teams everywhere change the world through the power of software, and we are looking for a well-rounded Senior Engineering Manager for Atlassian's Trust Engineering team. We have teams in the USA, Australia, and India. We are responsible for building and operating mature platforms/software systems to improve the entire company's security and trust & safety posture.

As a Senior Engineering Manager in the Trust org, you’ll be a technical leader and people manager, responsible for guiding your team to technical decisions for production services, helping prioritize and organize the team's work, manage projects and programs within and across departments, and providing career growth and mentorship opportunities to your team.

If you are a strong leader passionate about improving security, this role presents a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact!

What you'll do

• Be a people manager for your engineers (10-15 people).

• Own the delivery of critical projects, multiple streams of work at once in the Security and Trust domains.

• You have an interest in working with colleagues to understand our products and improve existing security infrastructure.

• Lead your team through incidents and high operational load, navigate ambiguity and make trade-offs, hard decisions.

Responsibilities

• Team management: Hire, build, and retain an open, trusting, operationally mature culture and team. Lead and mentor a team of high-performing technical professionals, fostering a culture of security and collaboration.

• Collaboration and communication: Foster a security-focused culture within the product development process, communicating updates, risks, and strategies to executive leadership and stakeholders.

• Leadership development: Mentor and develop security practitioners, contributing to large-scale security projects and ensuring successful implementation.

• Operational excellence: Define appropriate operational and quality metrics and ensure they are achieved and maintained. You build it, you run it.

• Domain oversight: Implement and enforce security standards, policies, and procedures for product development, collaborating on risk assessments and mitigation strategies.

Basic qualifications

• A track record of delivering projects on time, in scope, and within quality goals in an Agile/Lean environment.

• 5+ years of software, infrastructure, or security engineering …