Head of Engineering - Information Protection

and serve as a key ambassador for Atlassian India. You will play a critical role in attracting, developing, and retaining top engineering talent, while building deep partnerships with cross-functional and global teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage multiple engineering teams within our India based engineering organization, focused on building and scaling Information protection applications, delivering on ambitious multi-quarter roadmaps.

• Define and execute technical and product strategies aligned with Atlassian's vision for enterprise security, data protection, and compliance.

• Foster an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are welcomed and innovation is encouraged.

• Collaborate closely with product management, design, and global engineering leaders to deliver high-impact features and seamless customer experiences.

• Drive technical excellence, operational rigor, and continuous improvement across teams.

• Recruit, mentor, and develop top engineering talent; build strong succession pipelines and support career growth.

• Champion developer productivity, quality, and operational metrics.

• Partner with local and global leaders to strengthen Atlassian's brand, talent acquisition, and retention in India.

Qualifications:

• 12+ years of experience in building and scaling engineering teams with a focus on engineering strategy, infrastructure planning, and architecture.

• Demonstrated experience in developing influential relationships and trust with senior leaders across different functions.

• Proven experience hiring and mentoring high-caliber engineers with diverse technical strengths and backgrounds.

• Strong product sense with an understanding of product drivers and of how to drive value across customers

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into easy-to-understand language for business partners.

• High-energy self-starter with a passion for data and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.

• You will have strong empathy and a bias for action.

• A graduate degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building and operating large-scale Enterprise SaaS security or compliance solutions.

• Exposure to AI/ML technologies and their application in security or risk management.

• Experience managing managers and scaling organizations of 50+ engineers.

• Experience leading teams across geographies in a distributed-first company.

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.

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.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.