Atlassian

Technical Head of Enginering

Atlassian  •  San Francisco, CA / Seattle, WA (Remote)  •  1 day ago
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Job Description

Overview

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. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

Responsibilities

Role Summary

We are hiring a Technical Head of Engineering to lead work on Atlassian’s Agent Platform. This role blends people-management responsibilities with deep technical leadership across applied ML, agentic systems, platform engineering, and production-quality AI experiences.

The ideal candidate is a technically strong hands-on leader who is comfortable being either an individual contributor or a people manager. They can grow and lead a high-performing team while staying close enough to the technology to guide ML architecture, quality, evaluation, reliability, and platform decisions as well as write production code themselves. They should be comfortable operating at the intersection of product outcomes, developer experience, AI/ML systems, and scalable platform foundations.

About the Agent Platform Team

The Agent Platform team builds foundational capabilities that make AI agents useful, reliable, secure, and scalable across Atlassian. The team operates in a high-impact area connected to Rovo, Teamwork Graph, Jira agent workflows, and other Atlassian products. Its work helps Atlassian teams and customers create agentic experiences that can reason over work context, orchestrate across tools, and deliver meaningful outcomes in real product workflows. They also insure security of agentic products and help build evaluation systems.

This is a strong fit for a leader who is excited by platform leverage: building reusable systems, patterns, and capabilities that help many product teams move faster while maintaining quality, trust, and operational excellence.

Why This Role Exists

  • Atlassian is investing heavily in AI-native and agentic experiences, and the platform layer is critical to making those experiences production-ready.
  • The team needs a leader who can provide clear direction, build talent, and create an execution rhythm across ambiguous, fast-moving AI platform work.
  • The role requires ML and systems depth to build alongside senior engineers and discuss architecture, evaluation, quality, reliability, and tradeoffs—not just people management.
  • The leader will help translate broad AI strategy into practical platform capabilities that can be adopted across Atlassian products.

Key Responsibilities

  • Set technical and execution direction in partnership with product, engineering, ML, data, and platform stakeholders.
  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers working on agent platform capabilities, including hiring, performance management, career development, and team health.
  • Be technically hands-on and write production code.
  • Guide technical decisions across applied ML systems, agent workflows, context retrieval, evaluation, quality measurement, observability, and production operations.
  • Create a strong operating cadence: goals, planning, prioritization, risk management, decision-making, and cross-team communication.
  • Ensure the team balances speed with quality, trust, security, privacy, cost efficiency, and operational readiness.
  • Partner with leaders across Rovo, Product and platform teams across Atlassian to align roadmaps and dependencies.
  • Build an inclusive, high-accountability team culture where engineers can do their best work and grow their craft.

Qualifications

Benefits & Perks

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 go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

About Atlassian

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.

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 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.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.

In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.

Atlassian

About Atlassian

Atlassian powers the collaboration that helps teams accomplish what would otherwise be impossible alone.

From space missions and motor racing to bugs in code and IT requests, no task is too large or too small with the right team, the right tools, and the right practices.

Over 300,000 global companies and 80% of the Fortune 500 rely on Atlassian’s software, like Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Trello, to help their teams work better together and deliver quality results on time.

With our 300,000+ customers and team of 10,000+ Atlassians, we are building the next generation of team collaboration and productivity software.

We believe the power of teams has the potential to change the world — one that is more open, authentic, and inclusive.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Sydney, AU
Year Founded
2002
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