Principal Technical Program Manager, Atlassian

Atlassian

Location:
United States

Category:
IT - Administration

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Job Description:

As a Principal Technical Program Manager within the SPEAR team at Atlassian, you will lead and manage complex technical programs that directly impact product quality and efficiency. The role involves strategic planning, program management, technical collaboration, risk management, and leadership. The SPEAR team focuses on enhancing system performance, reliability, and scalability across Atlassian's suite of products.

Job Responsibility:

Strategic Planning: Collaborate with stakeholders to develop long-term strategies and roadmaps for platform improvements
Program Management: Define and execute technical programs focused on capacity planning, performance optimization, and reliability enhancements
Technical Collaboration: Partner with engineers and architects to address technical challenges and drive solutions
Project Oversight: Manage the full lifecycle of technical programs, including forecasting, budgeting, and scheduling
Risk and Communication: Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, and communicate project status to stakeholders

Requirements:

8+ years of experience on software teams as Development Manager or TPM
Strategic thinking and ability to understand business objectives to translate them into technical problems and programs
Technical understanding of systems involved
Willingness to develop domain expertise in the area they operate - storage, networking, authentication, capacity management, service deployments, etc.
TPMs are not expected to write or read code, but are expected to understand system flows, block architectures, APIs and such
Experience defining and running end-to-end complex technical programs
Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills

Nice to have:

B.S. in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or Technical Discipline
Ability to drive change through building systems, frameworks and/or platforms
Understanding of capacity, systems efficiency and mapping return on investment to engineering systems
Strong leadership, organizational and communication skills
Ability to thrive in fast-paced, collaborative and ambiguous start-up like environments where thoughtfulness, an entrepreneurial mindset, persistent execution and relationships drive success

What we offer:

Health coverage
Paid volunteer days
Wellness resources
Bonuses
Commissions
Equity

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
May 17, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

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