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# Principal Enterprise Security Engineer

- **Company:** Atlassian
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $184,500.0 - $260,850.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 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, Gsuite
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ab91bc65a622355f

## About the Role

* 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.

## 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.


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