Security Engineer Intern

Security Engineer Intern at Atlassian

Overview

Atlassian offers a flexible work model, allowing employees to choose between office, home, or a hybrid approach to best support their personal and professional lives. As a distributed-first company, interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually. We hire in countries where we have a legal entity.

Your Future Organization

Atlassian’s Intern program is a comprehensive experience combining hands-on technical training, professional growth, dedicated mentorship, and strong social connections. This program is designed to equip students for an impactful career at Atlassian.

This Security Engineer Intern role is based in Seattle, WA, and requires candidates to be willing and able to work from this location. Please note, this position is not eligible for F1 and J1 students and does not support work sponsorship.

The paid internship runs for 12 weeks, typically from May/June 2026 to August/September 2026.

Your Future Team

As a Security Engineer Intern, you will join our Security team, responsible for safeguarding Atlassian services that serve tens of thousands of customers. You will report to a Security Engineering Manager and benefit from the guidance of a dedicated team mentor, working alongside some of the industry's top Security Engineers.

Responsibilities

What you'll do

If you're passionate about solving complex security challenges, you'll contribute across four key areas:

• Build and operate new monitoring and analytics systems to detect potential compromises.
• Develop automation scripts to identify and exploit vulnerabilities within Atlassian products and marketplace applications.
• Research and propose product features to enhance the security posture of our software against common vulnerabilities.
• Design and secure hardware, networks, and corporate infrastructure.

Qualifications

Your Background

We are looking for candidates who demonstrate:

• Experience in programming with languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, or other object-oriented programming languages.
• A clear interest in the security field, evidenced through academic coursework, previous internships, work experience, or personal projects.
• Comfort in writing code to achieve goals, not relying solely on third-party solutions.
• An interest in software engineering, shown through prior internships, work experience, projects, or publications.
• Knowledge of data structures, specifically their implementation and application to security challenges.
• Familiarity with applying common design patterns.
• Availability to commit to a 12-week full-time (40 hours/week) program during Summer 2026.
• Current full-time enrollment in a 4-year bachelor's degree program, returning to the program after the internship, and graduating by June 2027.

Compensation

Atlassian is committed to equitable and competitive compensation. The baseline of our salary range is intentionally set higher than typical market rates, reflecting our expectation to hire most candidates near this starting point. Base pay is ultimately determined by an individual's skills, expertise, and experience. Atlassian operates with three geographic pay zones in the United States. For this Security Engineer Intern role, the current base pay ranges per hour for new hires in each zone are:

• Zone A: $59/hr - $75/hr
• Zone B: $53/hr - $68/hr
• Zone C: $49/hr - $62/hr

This role may also be eligible for additional benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity. For more details on geographic pay zones, please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones and confirm your specific location's zone with your recruiter.

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian provides a comprehensive suite of perks and benefits to support you, your family, and community engagement. This includes health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and more. Further information is available at go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

About Atlassian

Atlassian's core mission is to empower every team to unleash its full potential. Our software products facilitate team collaboration globally, making collective achievement possible. We believe in the unique contributions of all Atlassians and foster an inclusive culture, ensuring we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All information is handled confidentially according to EEO guidelines.

To ensure the best experience, we offer accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process. Please inform our Recruitment team if needed.

For more insights into our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.

Key skills/competency

• Security Engineering
• Vulnerability Management
• Threat Detection
• Security Automation
• Infrastructure Security
• Software Hardening
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Data Structures
• Java / Python / JavaScript
• Product Security