Principal Technical Program Manager

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.

This is a remote position based in Australia or New Zealand. With a sufficient timezone overlap with the team, we're able to hire eligible candidates for this role from any location in Australia and New Zealand.

Your Future Team

The mission of the PaaS Technical Program Management team is to work across Engineering to implement Core Engineering's infrastructure strategy, with greater velocity and more predictable outcomes for our customers. This team works with the engineering leadership team to ensure that strategic technical programs are successful and standards are derived from those programs to help our scale. The members of the organization are important in influencing the technical strategy and aligning it with our goals in delivering outcomes towards our business continuity strategy.

What you'll do

• Lead initiatives to support developer lifecycle across our large scaling Engineering teams, through engineering standardisation and practices

• Lead efforts to enhance the reliability and efficiency of deployment processes, ensuring minimal user impact during rollbacks and high accuracy in incident detection

• Identify and implement improvements in deployment and provisioning tooling to uplift overall system performance

• Understand business objectives and translate them into technical systems problems that need to be prioritised and solved in the current business environment through programs

• Use your technical understanding of Atlassian and related systems to partner with and influence engineers and architects in making progress on these problems

• Be the customer advocate and work with engineers and architects to deliver solutions that prioritize customer needs

• Be accountable for the success of these technical programs by managing the entire lifecycle from initiation to forecasting, budgeting, scheduling, etc

• Manage complex dependencies and projects with a broad scope across the company

What you'll need

• 7+ years of program leadership experience on software teams, in an Engineering or Development Manager, Technical Program Manager, or Platform Product Manager capacity

• Experience in software development and leading complex engineering projects that work through large-scale company wide challenges, spanning multiple technical teams

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems, platform-as-a-service, and/or cloud service providers

• Expertise in setting the vision and developing program roadmaps, including making important decisions to keep projects on track, managing and mitigating risks and dependencies, and driving adoption and change

• Experience partnering with Executive sponsors and engineering partners; including Executives, Senior Architects, and Senior Engineering Managers

• You'll have a product thinking mindset that always has the customer (internal and external) front of mind in everything you do

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

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.

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