Principal Enterprise Security Engineer

About the Position

Principal Enterprise Security Engineer

Join Atlassian as a Principal Enterprise Security Engineer to lead strategic security architecture and drive innovation.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership:
  • Define and maintain the end-to-end enterprise security architecture blueprint, covering endpoint, identity, network, and data.
  • Lead the architectural reviews of major enterprise technology initiatives (e.g., AI adoption, zero trust modernization, vendor onboarding).
  • Establish architectural controls, paved paths, and perform periodic maturity assessments.
• Technical Subject Matter Expertise (SME):
  • Provide expert guidance on security best practices, technologies, and methodologies to engineering teams.
• Architecture & Design:
  • Review and influence the design of platform and service architectures, ensuring security is integrated from the outset.
  • Provide risk-based architectural recommendations, influencing executive stakeholders and investment decisions.
• Improve Org-Wide Productivity and Safety:
  • Automate control deployment and drift detection (IaC/PaC), reduce exception volume, and shorten time-to-adoption via platformized solutions.
  • Enable safe, rapid change with CI/CD for policy/config and change planning for broad rollouts.
• Collaboration:
  • Work closely with security teams, engineering partners, product leaders, and other principal architects to drive large-scale security initiatives.
  • Serve as the architecture liaison between Corporate Security and Product Security, ensuring a unified security strategy across enterprise and customer-facing environments.
  • Serve as a role model for engineers and mentor security practitioners across multiple seniority levels.
  • Act as the technical mentor to security engineers across corporate domains.

Requirements

• 10+ years in cybersecurity, with 5+ years in principal or lead architecture.
• Cloud Security Expertise: In-depth knowledge of cloud security architecture (AWS, GCP) and SaaS ecosystems (Google Workspace, Slack, Okta, etc).
• Deep understanding of identity and access management, endpoint security, data protection, network segmentation, and zero trust architecture.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex security concepts for executives and engineers.

We Offer

• Competitive Salary: Ranges from $184,500 to $289,050 per year, depending on the geographic pay zone.
• 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.
• Flexible Work Arrangements: Choose where you work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two.
• Professional Development: Opportunities for continuous learning and growth.

About the Company

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.

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