Senior Threat Detection Engineer

Overview

We’re expanding our Threat Detection Engineering team at Atlassian and looking for an exceptional security professional to join our team and advance our detection capabilities. This role involves gaining deep understanding of our enterprise and product environment to develop custom detection to rapidly identify threats, developing and deploying new detection technology into our capability stack, and developing advanced detection analytics. You will have extensive experience as a Detection Engineer, familiarity building effective detection into modern cloud environments, have lead complex technical projects, and excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

Responsibilities

• Develop advanced threat detection mechanisms using complex data analytics and machine learning models that can effectively identify and raise alerts for any adversarial or high-risk behaviors within the Atlassian’s systems.

• Continuous improvement and fine-tuning of detection systems to effectively adapt to new and emerging cyber threats.

• Monitor and enhance critical detection systems to ensure their reliability and effectiveness in delivering robust detection capabilities.

• Deploy new detection technologies to continuously uplift and improve our detection capabilities.

• Collaborate with partner teams such as Incident Response and Threat Intelligence is to establish and maintain meaningful security alerts. Work closely with these teams to ensure security alerts are relevant, actionable, and aligned with the overall security strategy.

• Collaborate closely with Product Engineering, Data Platform, and Security Engineering teams to advance our detection coverage and tooling in our production cloud environments.

• Automate complex security operational tasks, aiming to streamline and optimize routine security activities.

• Develop tools, systems, and programs to enhance and fortify Atlassian's overall security posture.

• Remain informed about the latest security trends, emerging threats, and evolving technologies to ensure that Atlassian is well-prepared to adapt to new security challenges. This includes continuous learning and staying abreast of industry developments to inform the company's security strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.

• Minimum 3 years experience in Detection Engineering roles.

• Experience building advanced data analytics and ML based detection models to identify complex threats.

• Experience building effective detection capabilities to modern cloud environments.

• Experience using common programming languages to build automation.

• Experience identifying threats through proactive threat hunting

• Experience using security detection technologies and systems, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, EDR, and authentication systems.

• Experience successfully delivering complex projects.

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to effectively identify and resolve problems.

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: $176,200 - $235,000

Zone B: $158,600 - $211,500

Zone C: $146,300 - $195,000

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.