Senior Engineering Manager - Atlassian Government Cloud

Responsibilities

• Own the function
• Own the release process for Government releases: planning, branch and versioning strategy, release readiness, cutover, verification, and rollback.
• Run the release calendar and dependency map across teams; make the tradeoffs when timelines, quality signals, and commitments collide.
• Own go/no-go decisions and the criteria behind them. Define what "ready to ship" means, in writing, and hold the bar.
• Serve as the escalation point for release-impacting incidents, including out-of-hours for major launches.
• Lead and grow the team
• Manage, coach, and hire a team of 10-15 software engineers; set clear expectations, run performance and career development, and build a healthy on-call and workload rotation.
• Build bench strength so no release depends on one person's memory
• Drive the strategy
• Define a multi-quarter roadmap to reduce release risk and cycle time: trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive rollout and canaries, automated release gates, and one-click rollback

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