Senior Engineering Manager, Bitbucket

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.Atlassian helps teams everywhere change the world and we are looking for a new senior leader on the Bitbucket Cloud engineering team. Bitbucket is the Git solution for professional teams, trusted by over 1 million teams and 10 million users. We are revolutionizing the software industry and helping teams collaborate and craft that magic in delivering their best work. Think NASA launching the Rover on Mars or Cochlear gifting children born deaf with the ability to hear, your work directly impacts the products they use to advance humanity. The primary focus of your role will be to help grow and scale the core Bitbucket engineering teams, ensure commitments stay on track, remove any roadblocks, and facilitate fast execution and timely decision-making. In addition, you will manage managers and ensure their growth and success. You will also collaborate across Atlassian to ensure project dependencies and deliveries are handled well. We would love for you to have experience running highly effective development teams, able to manage both managers and engineers, along with an extensive background in distributed systems and web-scale software. This role will also benefit from a deep understanding of the latest build, test, performance test, deployment, and configuration tools. Bonus points for real-world Agile experience (and the scars to prove it). Traits that will serve you well in this role include being passionate about the customer experience, ready and willing to ask the tough questions, a natural at working cross-functionally, and rock solid in both your written and verbal communication skills (public speaking and debating ideas with developers and non-technical people is a given).

The Role:

• Managing the Bitbucket Enterprise Experience engineering teams that build and maintain Bitbucket’s most foundational systems. This group is tasked with helping Bitbucket scale to meet the needs of enterprise customers.
• This is a manager-of-managers role overseeing of an organization of roughly 40 engineers (5 frontline teams).
• Driving excellence in security, reliability, and operational health across Bitbucket engineering, maintaining a culture of rapid turn-around of security fixes, and dedication to hitting 99.99%+ uptime.
• Guiding your teams in understanding the right metrics to track and improve.
• Mentoring, empowering, and inspiring the managers who report to you. At Bitbucket, our engineering leaders put our team members first, providing the right support for them to lead projects on autonomous, nimble teams.
• Enabling our cross-functional product teams to ship features quickly and safely as our team grows in size, providing them with the tooling and processes needed for success.
• Leading with integrity and inspiration, by drawing from past experiences within large-scale complex systems, cloud companies, and/or product experience with complex enterprise software.

On your first day we’ll expect you to have:

• 5+ years of experience managing high-performing engineering teams. Experience managing remote employees.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills: written and verbal, in person and remote. You have the ability to build strong partnerships at all levels of our team, and have proven leadership skills in listening, influencing, and coordinating.
• A passion for understanding customers and their needs. Empathizing with our customers is crucial in order to build the right set of reliability practices at Bitbucket.
• Experience setting a high bar for operational excellence across an engineering team, and putting systems in place to measure against that bar.
• Proven technical background and acumen stemming from deep understanding and experience across complex products and systems. Deep understanding of application security, web applications, and modern techniques for building software. Understanding of the latest build, test, deployment, and configuration tools. Real-world experience building high-performance, large-scale systems.
• An understanding of security and privacy standards (e.g. SOC2, GDPR).

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.