Principal Corporate Security Engineer

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Overview

Working assians 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. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

The Principal Engineer, Corporate Security serves as the senior technical authority and strategic thought leader across corporate architecture, SaaS platforms, and workforce technologies. This individual will drive the long-term vision, design controls and paved paths that safeguard corporate assets while enabling business agility and innovation at scale.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership:

• Define and maintain the end to end corporate security architecture blueprint, covering endpoint, identity, network, and data.

• Lead the architectural reviews of major corporate 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.

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Collaboration:

• Work closely with security teams, engineering partners, product leaders, and other principal engineers 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 environment.

• 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.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cybersecurity engineering or enterprise architecture, with 5+ years in a principal or lead engineer capacity.

• 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.

• Familiarity with security compliance frameworks, e.g ISO
27001, SOC2, FedRAMP, HIPAA

• Experience with enterprise browser management

It’s Great, But Not Required If You Have

• Familiarity with security compliance frameworks, e.g ISO
27001, SOC2, FedRAMP, HIPAA

• Experience with enterprise browser management

Compensation

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. 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: $221,400 - $289,050

• Zone B: $199,800 - $260,850

• Zone C: $184,500 - $240,875

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Please visit /payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific…