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Principal Security Engineer
Microsoft
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Remote Eligibility
On-site
Domain
Security Operations
State
Remote
City
Remote
Job Description
Posted on:
February 24, 2025
Primary NIST Speciality
Protect and Defend
NIST Sub-speciality
Incident Response
Seniority
Senior
Salary ($K)
162
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314
Summary and company overview
Summary Information about the Role
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.
Company Overview
Microsoft's Mission is to "Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more" and Security is core to that statement. 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.
Responsibilities
- Drive understanding and decision making around Security Incidents and the Post Incident Review (PIR) Process
- Driving Secure Engineering policies, practices, and tooling across user-facing services at Microsoft, including 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
Job Requirements
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
Other Qualifications
- 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: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
Additional commentary
Software Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 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 $209,600 - $314,400 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
Single reqs: Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 23, 2025.
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.
Summary and company overview
Summary Information about the Role
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.
Company Overview
Microsoft's Mission is to "Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more" and Security is core to that statement. 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.
About
Microsoft
Company Size
Very large (20K+)
Employer type
Enterprise
Company Rating (Glassdoor)
4.4
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