Security Engineer

Develop, test, and maintain tools and automation that help teams find security weaknesses, investigate findings, and prioritize risks, with guidance and increasing independence.

• Conduct security research and analyze results to understand potential weaknesses, distinguish actionable findings from false positives, and communicate their impact.

• Use AI-assisted coding and research tools while validating their outputs. Depending on the work, build AI-assisted security capabilities or investigate risks in AI-enabled systems.

• Contribute to ongoing security operations, maintain documentation, and identify opportunities to improve team tools and workflows.

• Own assigned work and collaborate with security and software engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and regular feedback. Raise blockers and seek guidance when needed.

• Demonstrate your solutions, explain their results and limitations, and document them so others can use and maintain them.

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently enrolled full time in a bachelor or masters program in Computer Science or a related technical field and are graduating by August 2027.

• Familiarity with Java, Python, JavaScript, or other related object-oriented programming languages

• Knowledge of data structures, in particular how they are implemented and how to apply them meet security challenges

• Familiarity with the application of common design patterns

• Demonstrated interest in the security field through academic coursework, previous work or internship experience, or personal projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience investigating security weaknesses through application testing, code analysis, configuration reviews, or security research.

• Exposure to one or more areas such as application security, cloud security, identity and access management, endpoint security, or data protection.

• Experience using AI-assisted development tools or building with LLM APIs, including testing and validating their outputs.

• Examples of technical work that explain your approach, findings, and results, such as projects, security write-ups, or open-source contributions.

• Experience can come from academic, personal, research, or internship work.

• Optional Work Samples: If you have a publicly shareable project, security write-up, or technical investigation, include a link with your application. We’re interested in how you approached the problem, validated your findings, and explained the results. Please do not share confidential information or undisclosed vulnerabilities.

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

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