Principal Product Security Engineer, Cloud Security

Working at Atlassian

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About Team

The Product Security team at Atlassian is committed to ensuring the delivery of secure products. These teams are geographically distributed, with a presence in the USA, Australia, and India. Each team is structured uniformly to provide comprehensive product security services tailored to their respective time zones. These services include security consulting, risk identification, and mitigation consulting for all products within their purview.

Recognising the critical importance of product security as a customer necessity and a competitive edge, our team holds a pivotal position within the organisation. With Atlassian's strong engineering focus and emphasis on autonomous teams, maturing the security of this complex environment stands as our core duty. Our tasks encompass identifying potential security threats in our products, devising suitable mitigation strategies, and evaluating their effectiveness on a large scale. It is imperative to execute these responsibilities in a scalable manner, allowing us to adapt to the evolving landscape shaped by changes in our business, global dynamics, adversarial strategies, customer requirements, technological advancements, and other factors.

Overview

Do you love application and platform security and uplifting programs and capabilities Are you excited at the prospect of enabling thousands of Atlassian product and platform developers to improve the security of their applications and infrastructure and ultimately improve the security of millions of users that use Atlassian products We're looking for a Principal Security Engineer to join our team who thrives on working with development teams to secure their products across the software development lifecycle.

As a Principal Product Security Engineer you will be the Technical SME, promote automation, review platform and service designs and architecture and drive our security teams to equip the engineering partner teams with the latest tools, techniques and methodologies to build secure products by default. You will be responsible for partnering with our security teams and leadership groups across Atlassian's vast footprint to uplift our security programs.

On Your First Day, We'll Expect You To Have

• 10+ years of experience working in security

• Demonstrated expertise and experience working in security-focused roles.

• Significant experience collaborating with engineering teams to conduct security assessments and threat modelling for on-premise as well as SaaS products.

• Strong expertise in cloud security, with a focus on AWS, GCP, and Azure, coupled with significant experience in container security, particularly in Docker and Kubernetes.

• Significant expertise in overseeing security design reviews for transitioning services from monolithic to microservices architecture.

• Experience coding in Java, Javascript, Python, or Go, and at least one scripting language.

• Experience leading large-scale projects from start to finish and mentoring other security practitioners

• Adept experience providing SME knowledge and guidance to stakeholders and engineering functions

It's great, but not required if you have:

• Experience writing software that enables security processes

• CVE's to your name

• Contributions to open-source security software

• Delivered industry presentations

Our perks & benefits

Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit to learn more.

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 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.