Head of Engineering, DX

Overview

DX is the leading developer intelligence platform, recently acquired by Atlassian, helping companies quantify and improve developer experience. As Head of Engineering, you’ll report directly to the DX CEO/Co-Founder (who has led engineering since DX’s founding) and oversee a multi‑team organization. Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed‑first company. This is a remote position. To help our teams work together effectively, this role requires you to have 7+ hours of overlap with Mountain Time zone and will require some travel to our DX office based out of Salt Lake City.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day engineering execution for DX, the developer intelligence platform helps enterprise leaders understand developer productivity, quality, and speed across the SDLC.
• Lead, grow, and support an organization of managers and senior ICs delivering data pipelines, metrics engines, and AI-powered analytics and dashboards.
• Work directly with enterprise customers and internal design partners to validate hypotheses and inform what you build next.
• Establish core engineering rituals (planning, reviews, on‑call, incident management) suited to a fast‑moving, high‑ambiguity environment.
• Partner with Product and Design on a roadmap that balances near‑term value with long‑term platform and data investments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years in senior engineering leadership roles (Director/Head/VP level), ideally in SaaS startups.
• Served as the senior‑most engineering leader (or one of a very small number) at a Series A/B or equivalent high‑growth stage, including building teams from a small base. Ideally in developer tools, analytics, or AI‑driven products.
• Comfortable operating from 0→1 in high ambiguity: defining direction with limited precedent, iterating quickly, and adjusting based on customer and business signals.
• Proven track record of leading distributed engineering organizations (40+ engineers) through periods of growth and transformation.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical vision, drive execution, and deliver results in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication, executive presence, experience interfacing with customers, and stakeholder management.

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate’s skills, expertise, or experience.

Role

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: $239,400 - $312,550; Zone B: $216,000 - $282,000; Zone C: $198,900 - $259,675. This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity. Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

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.