Senior Security Assurance Engineer
Microsoft
Senior Security Assurance Engineer
Multiple Locations, United States
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Overview
Team 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 Security Engineering team within Microsoft Security helps to identify threats and gaps in the very tools that protect the planet's largest, most influential organizations from cyberattacks.
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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or related field
- OR equivalent experience. At least 5 years of experience in penetration testing, red teaming, or offensive security.
- At least 5 years of experience in penetration testing, red teaming, or offensive security.
- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred), identity systems, and distributed systems.
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and compliance-driven testing (e.g., FedRAMP, DORA).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience contributing to offensive security engagements in cross-functional environments.
- Exposure to mentoring or supporting junior team members in technical domains.
- Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate with engineering and security stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of OWASP Top 10, fuzz testing, port scanning, and exploit development.
- Experience working with AI Red Teams on AI platform and agent testing
Security Assurance IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.
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"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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter."
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 Accommodation request form.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Security Assurance Engineer you will conduct offensive security assessments that simulate real-world attacks on Microsoft Security’s products, services, and infrastructure. You will identify vulnerabilities across application, network, and operational domains and collaborate with engineering and security teams to support remediation efforts. This role plays a key part in strengthening the security posture of Microsoft’s security suite through hands-on testing and cross-team collaboration.