Senior Engineering Manager, Data Manager team

We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Data Manager team for Atlassian.Data Manager is the ingestion and data quality product that connects to multiple external data sources, ingests, cleanses, and reconciles asset data so that our customers always has information that is complete, current, and correct.

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.To help our teams work together effectively, this role is fully remote but requires you to be located in India, IST timezone.

• Lead the engineering organization for a cloud-based data ingestion and data quality product that consolidates information from multiple enterprise systems into a unified asset view.
• Define and execute the technical strategy for scalable ingestion, transformation, and reconciliation of large, complex data sets across many customers.
• Partner closely with product management, design, and go‑to‑market teams to shape the roadmap, prioritize investment areas, and ensure the product solves high‑value customer problems.
• Own delivery of critical features end‑to‑end from technical design and implementation through rollout, monitoring, and ongoing iteration based on customer feedback.
• Drive operational excellence by establishing and improving reliability and performance metrics, observability practices, incident response, and continuous improvement across services.
• Ensure high standards of data quality by evolving rules, validation, and reconciliation capabilities that keep customer asset data accurate, consistent, and trustworthy.
• Champion security, privacy, and compliance in how data is ingested, processed, stored, and exposed, working closely with security and compliance partners where needed.
• Build, lead, and grow a high‑performing engineering team, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and developing future technical and people leaders.
• Foster a strong engineering culture focused on customer empathy, experimentation, technical excellence, and shared ownership of outcomes.
• Collaborate with adjacent product and platform teams to align on shared components, manage dependencies, and deliver cohesive end‑to‑end experiences for customers.
• Represent the product and team in cross‑functional forums, communicating strategy, progress, and trade‑offs to senior stakeholders and partner teams.

• Significant experience (typically 10+ years) in software engineering, including 35+ years leading engineering teams as an engineering manager or senior engineering manager.
• Proven track record building and operating cloud-based products or platforms at scale (preferably on AWS, GCP, or similar).
• Strong background in backend engineering and distributed systems, such as microservices, event-driven systems, or large-scale data processing.
• Experience with data-intensive systems e.g., data ingestion, ETL/ELT, synchronization, or integration between enterprise systems.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, make trade‑offs, and drive complex projects from concept to production.
• Experience building and nurturing high-performing teams: hiring, coaching, feedback, and performance management.
• Strong collaboration skills with product management, design, and cross-functional partners, and comfort influencing without direct authority.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics to non‑technical stakeholders.

• Background integrating with common enterprise systems (e.g., HR, finance, identity, discovery, or inventory tools).
• Experience working in a SaaS environment serving enterprise customers with high expectations on reliability, security, and compliance.
• Prior experience leading teams through significant growth, re-architecture, or product evolution phases.