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Senior Security Software Engineer

Microsoft

Software Engineering

USD 119,800-234,700 / year

Posted on May 29, 2025

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Senior Security Software Engineer

Multiple Locations, United States

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Date posted

May 28, 2025

Job number

1825946

Work site

Up to 100% work from home

Travel

None

Role type

Individual Contributor

Profession

Software Engineering

Discipline

Software Engineering

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

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.

Security is a top priority for our customers amid rising digital threats, regulatory demands, and complex environments. Microsoft Security is committed to reshaping the security landscape with simplified, end-to-end solutions that protect users, developers, and organizations. Our mission is to secure digital platforms, devices, and clouds—both for our customers and Microsoft’s internal estate. We foster a culture of growth, excellence, and inclusion, driving innovations that impact billions globally.

The Security Engineering team safeguards Microsoft and M365 productivity apps like Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams. We build scalable, reliable cloud services focused on access control, DevOps, and data analytics to detect threats and protect critical services.

As part of the Microsoft Security organization, you will have a direct impact in contributing to 'Security above all else' as part of the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI), driven by our mission to protect customer data and privacy in the world's largest productivity suite. You'll work directly on advanced technologies, including access control, secrets management, data analysis, DevOps, and engineering processes. Join us in our mission to build the best security-first culture in the world, leading the way in protecting our M365 services with cutting-edge security solutions!

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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java etc.

OR equivalent experience.

2+ years of experience building scalable, efficient, and reliable cloud services.

2+ experience in developing and using Config as Code at scale including but not limited to Bicep, ARM or Octopus, Terraform, Pulumi, etc

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, C#, .NET, Python etc. OR master's degree in computer science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, .NET, Python etc. OR equivalent experience. Experience Optimizing automation, reliability, and monitoring of Livesite. Experience working in cybersecurity areas.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 5, Year.

Responsibilities

Improve application security maturity at scale by designing, implementing, and building security solutions. Partner with product managers and security leaders to ensure security maturity work is being prioritized and addressed across Microsoft 365 services. Building prototypes and proof-of-concept code, working alongside the engineering teams to provide advice on secure design and implementation. Providing design guidance and security reviews to engineering teams and improving security maturity. Responsible for leading the development of host-based agents and cloud-based services aimed at automatically enforcing security policy and configuration of both Azure-based PaaS and SaaS services, as well as IaaS based services on Windows and Linux. Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining a data platform at cloud-scale aimed at providing information needed to enforce security policy and improve the security posture of Microsoft’s services. Responsible for designing, building and maintaining technical stack for authentication, secret management, just-in-time elevation and just-enough access control, protecting engineering systems and infrastructure.

Other : Embody our Culture and Values

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Industry leading healthcare

Educational resources

Discounts on products and services

Savings and investments

Maternity and paternity leave

Generous time away

Giving programs

Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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