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Atlassian

Principal Corporate Security Engineer

Atlassian, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127

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Principal Corporate Security Engineer – Atlassian Join Atlassian as a principal corporate security engineer. This senior technical authority provides strategic leadership and serves as a strategic thought leader for corporate architecture, SaaS platforms, and workforce technologies.

Working at Atlassian Atlassians can choose where they work – in an office, from home, or a combination. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

Overview 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 architectural reviews of major corporate technology initiatives (e.g., AI adoption, zero‑trust modernization, vendor onboarding).

Establish architectural controls, pave paths and perform periodic maturity assessments.

Provide expert security guidance to engineering teams.

Review and influence design of platform and service architectures, ensuring security is integrated from the outset.

Automate control deployment and drift detection (IaC/PaC) to reduce exception volume.

Enable safe, rapid change with CI/CD for policy/config and change planning for broad rollouts.

Work closely with security teams, engineering partners, product leaders, and other principal engineers to drive large‑scale initiatives.

Serve as architecture liaison between Corporate Security and Product Security.

Mentor and act as a technical role model for security engineers.

Qualifications

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

Cloud security expertise: deep knowledge of AWS, GCP, 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; able to simplify complex security concepts for executives and engineers.

Nice to Have

Familiarity with security compliance frameworks such as ISO27001, SOC2, FedRAMP, HIPAA.

Experience with enterprise browser management.

Compensation Base pay ranges: Zone A: $221,400–$289,050 Zone B: $199,800–$260,850 Zone C: $184,500–$240,875. Eligibility for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Our Perks & Benefits Health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and 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. We never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. To provide accommodations, inform our Recruitment team.

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