Global Head of Detection & Response

Atlassian; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 294,000 - 384,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Paid volunteer days

Job summary

Atlassian seeks a senior security leader to own Detection & Response globally, driving strategy, execution, and measurable outcomes across cloud-first environments. You will lead a multi-region team, establish governance, and ensure rapid containment, eradication, and recovery with data-driven dashboards for executives.

You will build intel fusion, run threat hunting on Atlassian-specific TTPs, and partner with Trust Engineering to evolve the data platform with privacy-conscious telemetry and AI

Qualifications

• 15+ years in security with leadership of multi-region detection/response or SOC/IR at large-scale cloud-first companies.
• Proven success running high-severity incidents end to end, including executive/customer communications and regulatory readiness.
• Depth in cloud platforms, identity, EDR, data security, CI/CD security, and SaaS telemetry integration.
• Track record deploying automation (SOAR) and measurable improvements in MTTD/MTTR with KPIs/SLOs.
• Experience leading intel fusion or threat hunting, integrating ATT&CK/diamond model into detections.
• Familiarity with privacy-by-design, secure AI usage, and evaluation frameworks for ML/LLM detections.
• Executive presence with board-level communication experience; able to simplify incidents into actionable decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own global detection and response strategy, roadmap, and investment plan aligning outcomes to business risk and customer trust.
• Lead a multi-region security organization across time zones and build leadership bench and succession plan.
• Establish governance with clear OKRs, SLOs, and dashboards for executive visibility.
• Scale cloud-native detections across identity, data, endpoints, CI/CD, containers, and SaaS telemetry.
• Reduce false positives and missed detections via quality gates, purple teaming, and regression testing pipelines.
• Operate a 24x7 IR function with incident management, executive comms, and regulatory readiness.
• Drive automation and playbooks for rapid containment, eradication, and recovery; post-incident reviews with durable fixes.
• Build intel fusion capabilities translating signals into prioritized detections and preemptive controls.
• Run hypothesis-driven threat hunting focused on Atlassian-specific TTPs with measurable findings-to-detections.
• Partner with Trust Engineering to evolve the security data platform with privacy-aware telemetry and lineage.
• Leverage ML/LLM-assisted detections with evaluation frameworks and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Align with Product/Central Security and Compliance to close systemic risks and meet regulatory commitments.

Skills

Security leadership

IR management

Executive comms

Cloud security

SOAR automation

Threat hunting

Privacy-by-design

Executive presence

Job description

Atlassian seeks a senior security leader to own Detection & Response globally, driving strategy, execution, and measurable outcomes across cloud-first environments. You will lead a multi-region team, establish governance, and ensure rapid containment, eradication, and recovery with data-driven dashboards for executives.

You will build intel fusion, run threat hunting on Atlassian-specific TTPs, and partner with Trust Engineering to evolve the data platform with privacy-conscious telemetry and AI