Head of Engineering - San Francisco, United States - Atlassian

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    Description

    Atlassians have the flexibility to work in an office, from home, or a combination of both. This allows Atlassians to have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities.
    The Customer Support Technology Platform drives the next generation of platform tools and services across all Atlassian Cloud products to ensure that Atlassian's customer support capabilities are seamless for external customers and effective for internal support engineers.
    What you'll do:

    • This senior engineering leadership role will lead a global team of 50+ engineers and work closely with product management, design leaders and others to set the strategy, goals and execution roadmap for group.
    • You will own significant company goals (OKRs) and their delivery.
    • You will also set strategy alongside triad partners, growing great leaders, technical stewardship, structuring the organisation to support strategy, helping translate strategy into funded execution plans, navigating high-level dependencies with other Atlassian teams, and leading a distributed team of accomplished engineering teams.
    • As a platform team, there is a large emphasis on collaboration with other platform and product teams and finding win/win roadmap trade-offs.
    • There is also a strong element of enterprise-level delivery as Atlassian expands in that market.


    Compensation
    At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
    Zone A: $220,800 - $294,300
    Zone B: $198,700 - $264,900
    Zone C: $183,300 - $244,300
    This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
    Please visit for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

    • 5+ years of experience with building large-scale and modern web software mixed IaaS, PaaS and SasS environment
    • 5+ years of driving company-wide engineering programs at similar sized SaaS companies
    • 5+ years of experience in leading large development teams
    • 3+ years managing senior managers, and a track record of successfully scaling organizations of 150+ engineers
    • Driving clarity from single-line requirements and providing direction in ambiguous environments
    • Ability to drive excellence, pushing innovation, quality, and operational excellence
    • A track record of strong execution and delivering results
    • Strong communication skills (technical, non-technical audiences and senior leadership)


    It would be great if you have

    • Experience in defining a strategic roadmap for products and platforms
    • Experience with distributed development teams across multiple geographies
    • Continuous delivery with a strong bias for action


    This is a remote position.

    • 15+ years of software development management experience, managing team of 20+ engineers
    • Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
    • Strong and clear communication skills, with a strong emphasis on and empathy, and a bias toward action
    • Demonstrated experience partnering with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders
    • Experience driving technical strategy of the team
    • Knowledge of Agile software development methodologies
    • Demonstrated experience mentoring and growing high performing engineering teams


    It would be great if you have

    • Delivery services on AWS
    • Microservices-based and server-less architectures