Security Engineer, 2027 Graduate U.S

About the Role

Atlassian's Security team protects products, customers, and systems. This role involves developing and maintaining security capabilities, investigating technical problems, and contributing to team operations. You will receive guidance from experienced security engineers, build technical judgment, and take on increasing responsibility. This is a hybrid role located in Seattle, WA.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain tools and automation for identifying security weaknesses, investigating findings, and prioritizing risks.
• 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, validating their outputs. 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.
• Demonstrate solutions, explain results and limitations, and document them for others.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Currently enrolled full-time in a bachelor's or master's program in Computer Science or a related technical field, graduating by August 2027.
• Familiarity with Java, Python, JavaScript, or other related object-oriented programming languages.
• Knowledge of data structures, including their implementation and application to security challenges.
• Familiarity with the application of common design patterns.
• Demonstrated interest in the security field through coursework, previous work, internships, or personal projects.
• Willing and able to work out of the Seattle, WA location.

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 (projects, security write-ups, open-source contributions) explaining approach, findings, and results.
• Experience can come from academic, personal, research, or internship work.
• Optional Work Samples: Links to publicly shareable projects, security write-ups, or technical investigations are welcome.

This position is not eligible for F1 and J1 students and does not offer work sponsorship.