Principal Security Engineer
Atlassian
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Seattle, WA · $185k–$289k a year · Posted October 21, 2026
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About the job
Overview
Working at Atlassian
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.
Responsibilities
Roles 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.
Key Responsibilities
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.
Compensation
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
Qualifications
Key Skills & Experience
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 & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn 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 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.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .
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