Head of Engineering - Jira Platform Essentials

Working at AtlassianAtlassian can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Assuming you have eligible working rights and a sufficient time zone overlap with your team, you can choose to work remotely or return to an office as they reopen (unless it’s necessary for your role to be performed in the office). Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.With a sufficient timezone overlap with the team, we're able to hire eligible candidates for this role from any location in Australia and New Zealand. If this sparks your interest, apply today and chat with our friendly Recruitment team.Your future teamWe're looking for an experienced Head of Engineering to grow the Jira Platform Essentials (JPE) organisation and you will report into the Head of Engineering for Jira Cloud Platform (JPlat). You'll be responsible for the teams owning the essential components of Jira including the systems and experiences for Jira Issues, creating and viewing search results for issues, navigation, configuration of Jira issues, projects and permissions.

What you'll do

• You will use your experience to help JPE navigate several key transformations as we decompose from monolith to micro-services and move from owningkey parts of the end user experience to providing configurable components that Jira product teams can build with to improve the experience for existing Jira customers and bring it to new ones. This will involve growing and coaching the people and teams that report to you, partnering with architects, product, design and other roles to set strategy and ensure we are investing in solving the right problems. You will work through your directs and teams to driveday to day delivery and ensuring a high bar of operational excellence as they do so.

Your background

• Experience working with key stakeholders to define and drive the execution of multi-year product roadmaps and technical strategies with a focus on incremental impact.
• Experience managing managers, and a track record ofsuccessfully scaling organisations of 80 - 150 engineers
• Have demonstrated driving transformative change in teams and how they work.
• Experience building and nurturing cultures of operational excellence, shipping high quality platform capabilities to internal teams and enterprise customers
• Extensive engineering management experience, following Agile development processes with a history of shipping full-stack platform services

Our perks & benefitsTo support you at work and play, our perks and benefits include ample time off, an annual education budget, paid volunteer days, and so much more.About AtlassianThe world’s best teams work better together with Atlassian. From medicine and space travel, to disaster response and pizza deliveries, Atlassian software products help teams all over the planet. At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team.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 learn more about our culture and hiring process, explore our Candidate Resource Hub.