Senior Engineering Manager

<h2>Overview</h2> <p><strong>Working at Atlassian</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>Our office is in Bengaluru, but we offer flexibility for eligible candidates to work remotely across India. Whatever your preference—working from home, an office, or in between— you can choose the place that's best for your work and your lifestyle.</p> <p>Our India team is growing quickly, we’ve gone from 0 to over 20 engineers in less than a year. We are looking for a technical leader to drive this expansion. As a Senior Engineering Manager you will lead recruit and build a high performing team to contribute to our high scale PostgreSQL and OpenSearch platforms on Kubernetes. This ambitious project will support hundreds of millions of databases around the globe with high availability and performance. </p> <h2>Responsibilities</h2> <p>We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to scale out our storage team in India. You will be part of a fast growing team building our <strong>multi-cloud</strong> storage platform on <strong>K8s</strong>. The ideal candidate would have experience <strong>recruiting</strong> and <strong>building high performing teams</strong>. We run one of the largest fleets of <strong>PostgreSQL</strong> in the world, so expertise in PG is a big plus. We are rapidly expanding our <strong>OpenSearch </strong>fleet so expertise in managing large scale deployments would be great. </p> <p><strong>What you'll do:</strong></p> <ul> <li><p>Be responsible for high-quality software delivery, grow individuals and groom leaders on the team and contribute to architecture</p></li> <li><p>Work with leadership and partners to strategize, evolve a roadmap and provide high quality solutions</p></li> <li><p>Identify blockers, goals, success metrics ensuring awareness, OKR/roadmap awareness, and expectations</p></li> <li><p>Manage projects, process, partners and timelines</p></li> <li><p>Manage a growing team of Tech Leads and Software Engineers</p></li> <li><p>Hire a diverse team of engineers from entry level to principal</p></li> </ul> <h2>Qualifications</h2> <p><strong>Your background:</strong></p> <ul> <li><p>5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams</p></li> <li><p>Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree</p></li> <li><p>Expertise with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Scala is required.</p></li> <li><p>Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure)</p></li> <li><p>Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time</p></li> </ul> <p><strong>If you've got these skills, even better:</strong></p> <ul> <li><p>Proficiency in K8s and Cloud Native technologies</p></li> <li><p>Experience building and operating world-scale storage and telemetry systems</p></li> <li><p>Proficiency in PostgreSQL or similar relational databases</p></li> <li><p>Proficiency in OpenSearch or similar distributed search systems</p></li> </ul> <p><strong>Benefits & Perks</strong></p> <p>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 <strong><u>go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits</u></strong><strong>.</strong></p> <p><strong>About Atlassian</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit <strong><u>go.atlassian.com/crh</u></strong><strong>.</strong></p>

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