Senior Principal Security GRC Engineer

Overview

Working at Atlassian

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Responsibilities

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Overview

The Senior Principal Security GRC Engineer at Atlassian will be pivotal in shaping and executing the company's security risk and governance strategy. This role demands a profound understanding of cybersecurity engineering and risk management, coupled with the ability to lead cross-departmental initiatives and influence strategic decisions across the organization.

The engineer will play a crucial role in enhancing Atlassian's security posture, managing security risks, and guiding leadership in making informed, risk-based decisions. A deep understanding of the business and the ability to drive security integration across all organizational facets is essential.

Responsibilities

• Identify, Lead and Drive Strategic Initiatives: Spearhead the development and execution of security risk, governance and compliance strategies, ensuring alignment with Atlassian's overarching business objectives and compliance obligations. Lead initiatives that span multiple departments.

• Cross-Departmental Collaboration: Collaborate with various departments to implement security controls and best practices, ensuring a cohesive approach to risk management. Act as a trusted advisor in security governance, influencing strategy and decisions through close collaboration with cross-functional peers.

• Technical Leadership and Innovation: Provide expert technical guidance, promote simplification and automation, and support security teams in adopting industry-leading methodologies and approaches to build secure products by default. Drive technical innovation in security and risk management.

• Proactive Risk Identification and Mitigation: Identify potential security risks and threats, developing comprehensive strategies to mitigate them effectively.

• Continuous Improvement and Reporting: Regularly evaluate and report on the effectiveness of Atlassian’s security posture, ensuring continuous improvement and rapid adaptation to the latest cybersecurity developments. Lead improvements to policies, best practices, and standards in security governance.

• Influence and Align Stakeholders: Work with senior stakeholders to drive alignment on security initiatives, ensuring that security considerations are integrated into business decisions.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Extensive Experience: 10+ years of experience in a similar role, preferably in a large-scale SaaS/Product environment.

• Expertise in Security and Risk Management: Demonstrated expertise in security-focused roles, with a strong background in application security, cloud security architecture, and infrastructure.

• Leadership and Influence: Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence decision-making, and drive strategic initiatives across departments.

• Communication and Interpersonal Skills: Strong ability to communicate complex security concepts to stakeholders at all levels, fostering collaboration and understanding.

• Certifications and Technical Skills: Relevant technical experience required and certifications such as OSCP/E, CISSP or CRISC are beneficial. Proficiency in scripting languages (JQL, SQL, Python, Go) to automate recurring tasks.

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. 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: $252,200 - $336,200

Zone B: $227,000 - $302,600

Zone C: $209,300 - $279,100

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

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.

Our perks & benefits

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.