Senior Enterprise Security Architect - Cloud & Zero Trust

Atlassian; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 221,000 - 289,000; Full time

Job summary

At Atlassian, the Principal Enterprise Security Engineer leads the enterprise security architecture across corporate systems and SaaS platforms, shaping long-term vision and controls. This role works with security, engineering, product teams and executives to balance security and rapid innovation, while supporting Atlassian’s flexible work model.

Seattle-based or remote Atlassians contribute to safeguarding assets at scale, aligning with governance and CI/CD practices, and mentoring engineers

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cybersecurity, with 5+ years in principal or lead architecture.
• Cloud security architecture knowledge (AWS, GCP).
• IAM, endpoint security, data protection, zero trust, network segmentation.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the end to end enterprise security architecture blueprint across endpoints, identity, network, and data.
• Lead 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 practices to engineering teams and review platform/service designs for security from the outset.
• Provide risk-based architectural recommendations to influence executives and investments.
• Enable safe, rapid changes with CI/CD for policy/config and large rollout planning.
• Collaborate with security teams, engineering partners, product leaders and other principal architects on large-scale security initiatives.
• Serve as liaison between Corporate Security and Product Security to unify security strategy.

Skills

Cybersecurity seniority

Cloud security

IAM

Zero trust

Communication

Job description

At Atlassian, the Principal Enterprise Security Engineer leads the enterprise security architecture across corporate systems and SaaS platforms, shaping long-term vision and controls. This role works with security, engineering, product teams and executives to balance security and rapid innovation, while supporting Atlassian’s flexible work model.

Seattle-based or remote Atlassians contribute to safeguarding assets at scale, aligning with governance and CI/CD practices, and mentoring engineers