Senior Engineering Manager, Agentic AI Integrations

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Be the backbone of Atlassian's Agentic AI Integration Products : The Agentic AI Integrations team is responsible for the industry-leading Rovo MCP Server, Agent to Agent integrations as well as on the mission to catapult Atlassian value by leveraging cutting-edge AI capabilities like Claude Skills, ChatGPT/Claude Apps etc., essentially we will be working on anything and everything with AI integrations into the Atlassian ecosystem.
Knack to work on bleeding-edge AI technologies: Passionate to explore and learn AI transformative technologies and quickly pivot from prototyping new initiatives to building highly-scalable enterprise-grade AI products that will be used by 1000s of developers and enterprise users.
System mindset and Technical acumen-ship: Systems thinking mindset with attention to security, scalability, reliability and maintainability. Experience driving technical decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
Key Responsibilities

• Leadership: Build, coach, and mentor a team of software engineers.
• Technical Strategy: Deliver foundational components for multi-agent systems and lead the adoption of protocols like MCP and A2A.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Platform, and Data Science teams to embed AI capabilities across Atlassian.
• Operational Excellence: Maintain high-reliability services (4 9s SLA) while optimizing for cost and latency.
• Industry Influence: Contribute to open specifications and represent Atlassian in AI interoperability working groups.

Requirements

• Experience: 8-10+ years in software development with at least 4+ years in people management.
• AI Expertise: Hands-on experience with AI/ML platform engineering, model serving, or agent frameworks (LangChain, Semantic Kernel, etc.).
• Technical Stack: Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or Go.
• Systems Thinking: Experience with high-scale distributed systems, vector databases, and observability pipelines.

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This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $209,700 - $273,775
Zone B: $188,730 - $246,398
Zone C: $174,051 - $227,233
More about you...

• You have stellar people management skills and experience leading an agile software team
• You thrive when developing phenomenal people, not just great products
• You have worked closely with Data Science, Analytics, and Platform teams
• You bring expertise in building and maintaining high-quality system components and services
• You are able to drive technical excellence, pushing for innovation and quality
• You have at least 8-10 years of experience in a software development role as an individual contributor
• You have 4+ years of people management experience
• Hands-on experience in AI or ML platform engineering, including model serving, MCP, A2A, or workflow orchestration.
• Strong understanding of emerging agent frameworks, context protocols (MCP, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, etc.), and LLM-based system design.
• Proficiency in modern programming languages such as Python, TypeScript, or Go.
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional engineering initiatives and mentoring technical teams.
• Operating a highly reliable (4 9s SLA), cost optimize, low-latency and high-throughput Cloud service.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with MCP architecture, A2A specification, and agent collaboration frameworks (e.g., MCP servers, UI clients, and adapters).
• Experience with observability, vector databases, and secure model-to-model communication.
• Background in enterprise integration patterns, API governance, or developer experience platforms.
• Contributions to open-source AI frameworks or standards development initiatives.

Why Join

• Work at the forefront of AI interoperability and system design.
• Influence emerging standards that define how agents and models communicate.

• • Collaborate with top engineers and research partners building the next layer of enterprise AI infrastructure.

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 go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
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