Job title: Senior Software Security Engineer
Company: Microsoft
Job description: Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. The Azure Security DevSec team is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join us in securing services in the Microsoft Cloud. We work with service teams across Microsoft to evaluate and improve their security posture in the cloud, continuously moving the needle across multiple dimensions of their design, development and deployment security. In this role, you will collaborate with teams across Microsoft to dive deep and evaluate the risk posed by and to a given service, recommend existing mitigations, innovate on mitigations for new issue classes, contributing to the feedback loop that can help achieve these outcomes at scale.Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.Responsibilities:
- Perform exhaustive vulnerability analysis on cloud-hosted services in Microsoft Azure
- Identify opportunities, and implement solutions, to improve the security posture of services across Microsoft Azure
- Bring a growth mindset to tackle new and challenging problems everyday, in an inclusive team environment
- Innovate new approaches to solving security at cloud scale
- Other
- Embody our
andQualifications:Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, anomaly detection
- OR bachelor’s degree in computer science, Cybersecurity, or related field
- OR equivalent experience.
- 5+ years experience performing security assessments and penetration testing
- 3+ years experience securing cloud computing environments
- 3+ years experience with one or more of C#, Python, Rust, or JavaScript, PowerShell
Other Requirements
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:
- This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Security Assurance IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 – $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 – $250,200 per year.Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until December 4, 2024.Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the .#AzureSecurity #DevSecJobs #AzureDevSec #DSR #MSFTSecurity #AfroTech2024
Expected salary: $117200 per year
Location: Redmond, WA
Job date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 06:04:46 GMT
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