Senior Security Engineering Manager

Working at Atlassian
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What you'll do
As a manager of our Security Response Engineering team, you will play a key role in scaling and managing the operational security functions in Atlassian. Reporting to the Head of Detection and Response, you will lead a team of technical professionals, collaborate across global teams, and work closely with cross-functional stakeholders. The ideal candidate will bring a strong background in operational security functions, automation engineering, leadership, and a proven track record of managing security teams.

• Your responsibilities will include managing a team of security automation engineers, who support our Detections and Response function by building solutions to scale team processes, expand Detection and Response platform functionality, and enhance reliability of team capabilities.
• You have an interest in working with colleagues to understand our operational processes and platforms to design solutions to scale our capabilities.
• The use of machine learning and AI is critical to continued growth and scalability of our program and your experience and expertise in both of those areas will help set the team up for success.
• We build many of our own tools, so having an strong background in software development is essential.

Your background

• 3+ years working in security engineering
• 2+ years managing global team(s)
• Experience working with Security Detection and Response functions
• Experience in developing in and for public cloud environments
• Experience developing automation in Python, Go, or Rust
• Hands-on, proven experience developing and refining machine learning and AI models within security context
• Experience using Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms
• Experience using common Detection and Response tools and platforms
• Experience leading large scale projects from start to finish and mentoring other security practitioners

It's great, but not required, if you have:

• Published contributions to the security community
• Presentation experience at industry events
• Experience working with compliance, privacy, IT, networking, or related functions

Responsibilities

1. Security Automation Leadership: Collaborate to execute and drive aspects of the Detection and Response Strategy, driving the development automation and tooling to scale team operations.
2. Machine Learning & AI Expertise: Work with stakeholders and guide your team developing, publishing, and refining machine learning & AI based model tooling.
3. Team Management: Lead and mentor a team of technical professionals, fostering a culture of security and collaboration through clear communication and vision.
4. Operational Oversight: Implement and enforce standards, policies, and procedures for effective detection and response capabilities.
5. Leadership Development: Mentor and develop security practitioners, contributing to large-scale security projects and ensuring successful implementation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Proven experience in a leadership role within operational security teams, with 2+ years of experience.
• Deep understanding of cybersecurity principles, threat landscape, and operational security best practices.
• Strong knowledge of modern software engineering principles.
• Experience managing a team of technical professionals and collaborating across a global team.
• Track record of excelled leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills within own team as well as across the larger organization.

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: $206,100 - $269,075
Zone B: $186,300 - $243,225
Zone C: $171,900 - $224,425
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.
Benefits & Perks
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 .