Senior Engineering Manager, Core Engineering (Trusted Data Platform - TDP SQL)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Engineering Manager (Core Engineering) for TDP SQL / Trusted Data Platform

Description

Lead the TDP SQL engineering team for Atlassian’s Trusted Data Platform, a secure, reliable, scalable internal database platform used to manage persistent customer data. Own people leadership, platform strategy and execution, and operational outcomes with a strong focus on reliability. Partner across infrastructure, security, compliance, and product organizations to evolve TDP SQL and translate enterprise requirements into an executable roadmap.

Responsibilities

Team and organizational leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop engineering managers and engineers; set clear expectations and accountability.

• Build an inclusive, high-performing team through hiring, onboarding, talent development, and succession planning.

• Develop senior technical and leadership talent by delegating meaningful ownership.

• Establish operating practices for predictable execution and continuous improvement.

• Manage capacity across strategic investments, customer commitments, operational work, and technical debt.

Strategy and execution

• Define and execute the TDP SQL strategy and roadmap aligned with broader data-platform and cloud-infrastructure goals.

• Convert enterprise, product, and platform requirements into measurable outcomes, milestones, and engineering plans.

• Surface risks, cross-team dependencies, and capacity constraints early; clarify required trade-offs.

• Establish clear ownership and decision-making responsibilities across TDP SQL and partner teams.

• Drive adoption by simplifying integrations and delivering well-supported, production-ready capabilities.

Reliability and customer trust

• Own operational health: availability, durability, performance, security, compliance, and recoverability.

• Set service-level objectives, operational indicators, review mechanisms, and sustainable on-call practices.

• Lead responses to material incidents and ensure lessons produce durable improvements.

• Ensure support for enterprise needs: data residency, encryption, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and regulated environments.

• Maintain visibility into customer commitments and intervene when reliability or delivery risks threaten outcomes.

Technical and platform leadership

• Partner with senior technical leaders on architectural direction and technical decisions.

• Guide evolution across multiple cloud providers and specialized operating environments.

• Ensure designs cover scalability, tenant isolation, migration safety, security, operability, and reversibility.

• Balance delivery with platform simplification, lifecycle management, and reduced operational burden.

• Establish technical and operational contracts with dependent infrastructure and customer teams.

Cross-functional leadership and economics

• Build trusted partnerships across product, engineering, security, compliance, reliability, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams.

• Resolve dependencies with explicit owners, acceptance criteria, and delivery dates.

• Represent TDP SQL in engineering reviews, leadership forums, operational reviews, and portfolio planning.

• Own platform cost posture: infrastructure efficiency, demand forecasting, unit economics, and cost attribution.

• Prioritize customer trust, strategic platform value, and sustainable cost efficiency in investment decisions.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with base pay ranges; role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

• Health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and additional perks.