Principal Enterprise Security Engineer
Atlassian•Seattle, WA
•$184,500 - $289,050•Remote
About The Position
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.
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Provide expert guidance on security best practices, technologies, and methodologies to engineering teams.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits
- health and wellbeing resources
- paid volunteer days
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
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