Principal Security Assurance Engineer

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.

Microsoft's Mission is to "Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more" and Security is core to that statement. Microsoft has adopted the value of "Security above all else." The M365 product portfolio makes up some of the most widely used and trusted productivity applications and services in the world, and is driving AI value through CoPilots.

Would you like to help us protect the billions of people these apps empower to accomplish more in their lives? It’s a fun, dynamic, and always interesting set of problems securing these services and protecting our customers. M365 Security is a Growth Mindset team: We constantly take in new information from diverse sources like internal service partners, bug bounty reports, penetration tests, and external customer feedback to learn more about improving how we can keep our customer's data secure.

The M365 Cloud Security – Security Architecture Lifecycle Team for E+D (SALTed) is looking for a Principal Security Assurance Engineer to help us drive objectives to meet our goal of offering the most secure and trusted productivity experiences in the world, focusing in the AI/CoPilot space. This position requires a strong passion for technology, growth engineering, data-informed decision making, partner engagement, and most of all: customer focus. If this sounds like something you would like to do, we’d love to talk to you!

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

• Driving Secure Engineering policies, practices, and tooling across user-facing services at Microsoft, focused on AI platforms and implementations
• Helping guide Engineering Teams across Microsoft on security best practices
• Collaborating with teams across Microsoft to help define the state of the art for detection, prevention, and elimination of security risks
• Identifying emerging security problems that need additional focus, and contributing to building solutions to solve them, often utilizing AI
• Mentoring others inside and outside of Microsoft on building secure platforms and systems
  Plan and manage an expanding portfolio of security and privacy programs and track associated metrics
• Create and present plans to management for driving security and privacy objectives across M365 services
• Represent Microsoft in various customer briefings and security conferences
• Any other reasonable activity directed by management
• Embody our Culture and Values 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience in software development lifecycle, designing or developing Software and Services, large scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Networking, Information Assurance, Cyber Security, Mathematics, Risk Management, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.

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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• An extensive and diverse education, experience, and training, with a preference for a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Networking, Information Assurance, Computer Security, or a related technical discipline.

Security Assurance IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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 November 19, 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 Accommodation request form.

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