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Head of Engineering
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Head of Engineering
Atlassian
This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description This role involves overseeing a multi-team organization as the Head of Engineering for DX, the developer intelligence platform. - Own day-to-day engineering execution for DX, helping enterprise leaders understand developer productivity, quality, and speed across the SDLC. - Lead, grow, and support an organization of managers and senior ICs delivering data pipelines, metrics engines, and AI-powered analytics and dashboards. - Work directly with enterprise customers and internal design partners to validate hypotheses and inform future developments. - Establish core engineering rituals (planning, reviews, on-call, incident management) suited to a fast-moving, high-ambiguity environment. - Partner with Product and Design on a roadmap that balances near-term value with long-term platform and data investments. Qualifications - 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years in senior engineering leadership roles (Director/Head/VP level), ideally in SaaS startups. - Served as the senior-most engineering leader (or one of a very small number) at a Series A/B or equivalent high-growth stage, including building teams from a small base, ideally in developer tools, analytics, or AI-driven products. - Comfortable operating from 0→1 in high ambiguity: defining direction with limited precedent, iterating quickly, and adjusting based on customer and business signals. - Proven track record of leading distributed engineering organizations (40+ engineers) through periods of growth and transformation. - Demonstrated ability to set technical vision, drive execution, and deliver results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. - Excellent communication, executive presence, experience interfacing with customers, and stakeholder management. Requirements - This role requires you to have 7+ hours of overlap with Mountain Time zone. - Some travel to the DX office based out of Salt Lake City will be required. Compensation At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. The baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. - Zone A: $239,400 - $312,550 - Zone B: $216,000 - $282,000 - Zone C: $198,900 - $259,675 This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity. Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. Benefits Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family, and to help you engage with your local community. - Health and wellbeing resources - Paid volunteer days - And much more To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
Job Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years in senior engineering leadership roles (Director/Head/VP level), ideally in SaaS startups.
- Served as the senior-most engineering leader (or one of a very small number) at a Series A/B or equivalent high-growth stage, including building teams from a small base, ideally in developer tools, analytics, or AI-driven products.
- Comfortable operating from 0→1 in high ambiguity: defining direction with limited precedent, iterating quickly, and adjusting based on customer and business signals.
- Proven track record of leading distributed engineering organizations (40+ engineers) through periods of growth and transformation.
- Demonstrated ability to set technical vision, drive execution, and deliver results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Excellent communication, executive presence, experience interfacing with customers, and stakeholder management.
- This role requires you to have 7+ hours of overlap with Mountain Time zone.
- Some travel to the DX office based out of Salt Lake City will be required.
- Compensation
- At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. The baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience.
- Zone A: $239,400 - $312,550
- Zone B: $216,000 - $282,000
- Zone C: $198,900 - $259,675
- This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity. Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones.
Benefits
- Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family, and to help you engage with your local community.
- Health and wellbeing resources
- Paid volunteer days
- And much more
- To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
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