Senior Engineering Manager, UI Platform

About the Role
The UIP Frontend PaaS team at Atlassian is responsible for managing the infrastructure and capabilities required to host Atlassian's frontend applications. This includes the a Server-side Rendering as a platform, and a reliable, secure, and performant hosting service for frontend apps.
These services power the frontend for Atlassian's key products including Jira and Confluence. If the idea of managing large-scale, high-reliability, and high-performance services excites you, then this opportunity might just be your perfect fit!
As the Senior Engineering Manager of the UIP Frontend PaaS team, you will lead a team of experts dedicated to maintaining and improving this critical platform, ensuring it continues to deliver exceptional performance and reliability at scale.
Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
• Manage team workload, balancing run-the-business (RTB) activities and development productivity (DevProd) efforts.
• Oversee the operation and continuous improvement of the team's key services.
• Ensure platform performance, reliability, and security.
• Monitor and analyze platform performance metrics, identifying areas for improvement.
• Collaborate with product teams to integrate and optimize frontend infrastructure, understanding their needs and ensure platform support.
• Lead the team in responding to incidents, providing expert advice and ensuring timely resolution.
• Develop and implement processes to reduce the frequency and impact of incidents.
• Define the roadmap for platform capabilities, and communicating these capabilities and improvements to stakeholders.

• Experience running high reliability, large-scale services - 10billion req/mo at 99.99% reliability
• Experience working with AWS & Kubernetes
• Experience working with Node.js and Typescript