Senior Product Security Engineer
Atlassian · Posted Oct 6
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
The Product Security team ensures the safety and security of Atlassian's products and services, collaborating with development teams to enhance security across the entire software development lifecycle. The role focuses on cloud-native and SaaS security, providing technical guidance, promoting automation, and reviewing designs so that secure products are built by default. This engineer will run security assessments and threat models, perform secure design reviews, build automation for security controls and detection, and participate in cloud security incident response.
What you will do
- Security Assessments & Threat Modelling: Work with engineering to run assessments and threat models for cloud-native and SaaS products.
- Secure Design Reviews: Review cloud application architectures to ensure secure-by-default controls are in place.
- Automation & Detection: Build and maintain automation for security controls and detection to reduce manual vulnerability work.
- Incident Response: Participate in cloud security investigations and drive remediation.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate risks and solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences to drive security adoption.
- Collaboration: Partner closely with engineers, share knowledge openly, and foster an inclusive team environment.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify and champion improvements to security processes, tooling, and documentation.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Demonstrated expertise and experience working in security-focused roles
- Experience with application security, especially web applications
- Experience coding in Java, Python, or Go, and at least one scripting language
- Experience providing SME knowledge and guidance to stakeholders and engineering functions
- Experience leading large-scale projects from start to finish and mentoring other security practitioners
- Experience in cloud security architecture and infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Hands-on experience identifying and mitigating AI/LLM-specific risks (prompt injection, data leakage, model manipulation) during architectural reviews
- Comfortable utilizing AI agents and modern AI developer ecosystems for day-to-day software development and code contributions
Preferred qualifications
- An interest in making AI-assisted development safer and more reliable through automation, guardrails, monitoring, or evidence.
- Experience in building and integrating agentic AI systems for automated threat detection, triage, and security reviews.
- Published contributions to the security community
- Presentation experience at industry events
- Experience working with compliance, privacy, IT, networking or related functions
Benefits and support
- health and wellbeing resources
- paid volunteer days
- bonuses
- equity
About Atlassian
Atlassian is a leading software company that builds enterprise collaboration, project planning, and issue-tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Trello. Empowering teams across the globe, Atlassian focuses on unleashing the potential of every team through advanced workflows, cloud infrastructure, and AI-driven capabilities.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2002
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $210M raised
- 2010-07-13Venture - Series Unknown$60M
- 2014-04-10Secondary Market$150M
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Chief People and AI Enablement Officer
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