Microsoft
Principal Security Engineer
United States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations · Principal
Sponsorship not specified$166k-$296kDetected 1 day ago
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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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About the role
- Forward-Deployed Security within CISO Leadership is responsible for bootstrapping and maturing security programs and addressing threats faced by Microsoft divisions with emerging, non-traditional-enterprise technologies.
- This role sits in the Security Assurance Family, but the work is broader than classic assurance.
- This is a role for someone who likes ambiguous problems, learns by doing, and measures success by durable improvement rather than by findings written down.
Responsibilities
- Lead deep technical security reviews of products, services, infrastructure, and emerging technologies using AI-enabled methods including architecture analysis, threat modeling, adversarial testing, source review, telemetry, and data analysis.
- Build and maintain security tools, automation, prototypes, and reusable engineering patterns that teams adopt in real workflows.
- Partner directly with product and research teams to design, debug, implement, and validate security improvements, staying engaged through root-cause resolution rather than stopping at recommendations.
- Experience building and maintaining security tools, automation, or internal security capabilities used by real engineering teams.
Requirements
- Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Experience owning complex, multidisciplinary, multi-organization security problems from initial scoping through technical resolution and validated improvement.
- Software engineering experience in one or more general-purpose languages, such as Python, C#, C++, Go, Java, Rust, or TypeScript, enabled by agentic software engineering practices.
- Ability to analyze security or operational data and use evidence to make technical and prioritization decisions.
- Designing secure defaults, reusable engineering patterns, or automated controls that reduced the effort required for other teams to build securely.
Nice to have
- Additional or Preferred Qualifications
Skills
- We work where the problems are least standardized and the stakes are real:
Compensation
- $166k-$296k
Benefits
- Use threat intelligence, hunting techniques, telemetry, and incident learning to identify emerging attack paths and convert them into detections, controls, and engineering priorities.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
- If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the
Visa & Work Authorization
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status
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