Atlassian is continuing to hire with all interviewing and on-boarding done virtually due to COVID-19. All new and existing Atlassians will continue to work from home until it’s safe to return to our offices. When our offices re-open, we will provide the choice to work from home or return to work in an office unless a job requirement makes it necessary for a particular role to be performed at an Atlassian office.

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 Engineering teams that build and maintain Bitbucket’s most foundational systems. This is a manager-of-managers role of an organization of roughly 20 engineers.
• Driving excellence in security and reliability 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.
• 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.
• Experience setting a high bar for operational excellence across an engineering team, and putting systems in place to measure against that bar.
• 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.
• An understanding of security and privacy standards (e.g. SOC2, GDPR).

More about our team

We are always growing, learning, and adapting, in and out of the office. You’ll be joining a team that is smart and very direct. We ask hard questions and challenge each other to constantly improve our work. We are self-driven but team-oriented. We're dedicated to agile methodology and big believers in the power of teams. We know the importance of validating our assumptions about customers and implement various types of testing to see whether we're right (or wrong). Your teams will be distributed across multiple U.S. cities, predominantly San Francisco, CA and Austin, TX.

More about our benefits

Whether you work in an office or a distributed team, Atlassian is highly collaborative and yes, fun! To support you at work (and play) we offer some fantastic perks: ample time off to relax and recharge, flexible working options, five paid volunteer days a year for your favourite cause, an annual allowance to support your learning & growth, unique ShipIt days, a company paid trip after five years and lots more.

More about Atlassian

Creating software that empowers everyone from small startups to the who’s who of tech is why we’re here. We build tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Trello to help teams across the world become more nimble, creative, and aligned—collaboration is the heart of every product we dream of at Atlassian. From Amsterdam and Austin, to Sydney and San Francisco, we’re looking for people who want to write the future and who believe that we can accomplish so much more together than apart. At Atlassian, we’re committed to an environment where everyone has the autonomy and freedom to thrive, as well as the support of like-minded colleagues who are motivated by a common goal to: Unleash the potential of every team.

Additional Information

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians is the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of 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.

If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can rock the role, we’d love to learn more about you.

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