Head of Engineering, Search Serving
Atlassian
Head of Engineering, Search Serving
Job Description
Head of Engineering, Search Serving
📋 Job Overview
The Head of Engineering, Search Serving at Atlassian will lead the transformation of the company's search capabilities, driving the development of low-latency, highly-relevant search experiences across all platforms. This role involves managing global teams, crafting long-term technical strategies, and delivering on complex, multi-quarter roadmaps to build a transformative enterprise search experience.
📍 Location: Seattle, United States
🏢 Category: Engineering
📅 Posted: 2025-12-09 05:30 PM
🎯 Key Responsibilities
- Drive the transformation of Atlassian's search capabilities by delivering low-latency, highly-relevant, and reliable search experiences
- Manage global teams and craft long-term technical strategies
- Deliver on complex, multi-quarter roadmaps to build a transformative enterprise search experience
- Inspire teams distributed across geographies to achieve world-class engineering and operational standards
- Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for cutting-edge search
- Keep updated with the latest technological breakthroughs in search and provide active guidance to teams
- Build a deep understanding of business and engineering metrics and drive a culture of reliability, security, and productivity
- Champion developer productivity and empower engineers to invest in the right tooling at the right time
✅ Required Qualifications
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent experience
- 12+ years of experience developing large scale distributed systems
- 8+ years of experience managing software development teams driving large projects with complex dependencies and multiple stakeholders
- 2+ years of experience leading teams running search systems at scale
⭐ Preferred Qualifications
- Excellent communication skills and a track record of cross-group/cross-discipline collaboration
- Experience managing managers and a track record of scaling global organizations with 50+ engineers
- Experience working with and leading teams across geographies
- Ability to hire, onboard, and retain top talent for your team and foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence
- Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor team members
- Strong empathy and a bias for action
- Quick learner who thrives in an ambiguous environment
🛠️ Required Skills
- Deep expertise in search systems
- Ability to work through ambiguity
- Craft strategy and drive execution
- Inspire teams
- Define and communicate long-term technical vision
- Understanding of business and engineering metrics
- Empathy
- Bias for action
- Quick learning
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- Health and wellbeing resources
- Paid volunteer days
- Wide range of perks and benefits designed to support employees, their families, and community engagement
Locations
- Seattle, United States
Salary
Estimated Salary Rangemedium confidence
300,000 - 450,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Deep expertise in search systemsintermediate
- Ability to work through ambiguityintermediate
- Craft strategy and drive executionintermediate
- Inspire teamsintermediate
- Define and communicate long-term technical visionintermediate
- Understanding of business and engineering metricsintermediate
- Empathyintermediate
- Bias for actionintermediate
- Quick learningintermediate
Required Qualifications
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent experience (experience)
- 12+ years of experience developing large scale distributed systems (experience)
- 8+ years of experience managing software development teams driving large projects with complex dependencies and multiple stakeholders (experience)
- 2+ years of experience leading teams running search systems at scale (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Excellent communication skills and a track record of cross-group/cross-discipline collaboration (experience)
- Experience managing managers and a track record of scaling global organizations with 50+ engineers (experience)
- Experience working with and leading teams across geographies (experience)
- Ability to hire, onboard, and retain top talent for your team and foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence (experience)
- Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor team members (experience)
- Strong empathy and a bias for action (experience)
- Quick learner who thrives in an ambiguous environment (experience)
Responsibilities
- Drive the transformation of Atlassian's search capabilities by delivering low-latency, highly-relevant, and reliable search experiences
- Manage global teams and craft long-term technical strategies
- Deliver on complex, multi-quarter roadmaps to build a transformative enterprise search experience
- Inspire teams distributed across geographies to achieve world-class engineering and operational standards
- Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for cutting-edge search
- Keep updated with the latest technological breakthroughs in search and provide active guidance to teams
- Build a deep understanding of business and engineering metrics and drive a culture of reliability, security, and productivity
- Champion developer productivity and empower engineers to invest in the right tooling at the right time
Benefits
- general: Health and wellbeing resources
- general: Paid volunteer days
- general: Wide range of perks and benefits designed to support employees, their families, and community engagement
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Head of Engineering, Search Serving
Atlassian
Head of Engineering, Search Serving
Job Description
Head of Engineering, Search Serving
📋 Job Overview
The Head of Engineering, Search Serving at Atlassian will lead the transformation of the company's search capabilities, driving the development of low-latency, highly-relevant search experiences across all platforms. This role involves managing global teams, crafting long-term technical strategies, and delivering on complex, multi-quarter roadmaps to build a transformative enterprise search experience.
📍 Location: Seattle, United States
🏢 Category: Engineering
📅 Posted: 2025-12-09 05:30 PM
🎯 Key Responsibilities
- Drive the transformation of Atlassian's search capabilities by delivering low-latency, highly-relevant, and reliable search experiences
- Manage global teams and craft long-term technical strategies
- Deliver on complex, multi-quarter roadmaps to build a transformative enterprise search experience
- Inspire teams distributed across geographies to achieve world-class engineering and operational standards
- Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for cutting-edge search
- Keep updated with the latest technological breakthroughs in search and provide active guidance to teams
- Build a deep understanding of business and engineering metrics and drive a culture of reliability, security, and productivity
- Champion developer productivity and empower engineers to invest in the right tooling at the right time
✅ Required Qualifications
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent experience
- 12+ years of experience developing large scale distributed systems
- 8+ years of experience managing software development teams driving large projects with complex dependencies and multiple stakeholders
- 2+ years of experience leading teams running search systems at scale
⭐ Preferred Qualifications
- Excellent communication skills and a track record of cross-group/cross-discipline collaboration
- Experience managing managers and a track record of scaling global organizations with 50+ engineers
- Experience working with and leading teams across geographies
- Ability to hire, onboard, and retain top talent for your team and foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence
- Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor team members
- Strong empathy and a bias for action
- Quick learner who thrives in an ambiguous environment
🛠️ Required Skills
- Deep expertise in search systems
- Ability to work through ambiguity
- Craft strategy and drive execution
- Inspire teams
- Define and communicate long-term technical vision
- Understanding of business and engineering metrics
- Empathy
- Bias for action
- Quick learning
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- Health and wellbeing resources
- Paid volunteer days
- Wide range of perks and benefits designed to support employees, their families, and community engagement
Locations
- Seattle, United States
Salary
Estimated Salary Rangemedium confidence
300,000 - 450,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Deep expertise in search systemsintermediate
- Ability to work through ambiguityintermediate
- Craft strategy and drive executionintermediate
- Inspire teamsintermediate
- Define and communicate long-term technical visionintermediate
- Understanding of business and engineering metricsintermediate
- Empathyintermediate
- Bias for actionintermediate
- Quick learningintermediate
Required Qualifications
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent experience (experience)
- 12+ years of experience developing large scale distributed systems (experience)
- 8+ years of experience managing software development teams driving large projects with complex dependencies and multiple stakeholders (experience)
- 2+ years of experience leading teams running search systems at scale (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Excellent communication skills and a track record of cross-group/cross-discipline collaboration (experience)
- Experience managing managers and a track record of scaling global organizations with 50+ engineers (experience)
- Experience working with and leading teams across geographies (experience)
- Ability to hire, onboard, and retain top talent for your team and foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence (experience)
- Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor team members (experience)
- Strong empathy and a bias for action (experience)
- Quick learner who thrives in an ambiguous environment (experience)
Responsibilities
- Drive the transformation of Atlassian's search capabilities by delivering low-latency, highly-relevant, and reliable search experiences
- Manage global teams and craft long-term technical strategies
- Deliver on complex, multi-quarter roadmaps to build a transformative enterprise search experience
- Inspire teams distributed across geographies to achieve world-class engineering and operational standards
- Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for cutting-edge search
- Keep updated with the latest technological breakthroughs in search and provide active guidance to teams
- Build a deep understanding of business and engineering metrics and drive a culture of reliability, security, and productivity
- Champion developer productivity and empower engineers to invest in the right tooling at the right time
Benefits
- general: Health and wellbeing resources
- general: Paid volunteer days
- general: Wide range of perks and benefits designed to support employees, their families, and community engagement
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