Principal Enterprise Security Engineer

Atlassian
Seattle, WA, United States
about 1 month ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$184,500.0 - $260,850.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Software as a Service Cloud Computing Security Continuous Integration Identity and Access Management Network Segmentation Zero Trust Network Access Okta Software Security Slack Atlassian Tools
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Gsuite

Job description

The Principal Enterprise Security Engineer 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., * 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 Coporate 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., In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.

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.

Benefits & conditions

3.93.9 out of 5 stars Seattle, WA Remote $184,500 - $260,850 a year, At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate’s skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.

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.

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

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

About the company

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. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

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