Senior Security Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
remote work
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 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Mar 12, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity 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 Azure is at the center of Microsoft's cloud services strategy and the future of Microsoft. Azure brings together virtualization, compute, storage, authentication, authorization, artificial intelligence and machine learning, media and more to enable anyone to bring their business into the cloud. Azure DevSec, a part of the Microsoft Security organization, ensures Azure is the most secure platform in the world and delivers a secure experience for millions of users worldwide. The DevSec team is looking for a motivated Senior Security Software Engineer, to work on proactive security assessments and mitigation of vulnerabilities in Azure services. In this role, you will partner with engineering teams, understand and analyze cloud service architecture from a security standpoint, perform deep security assessments to identify and mitigate critical vulnerabilities in Azure services. Are you passionate about finding vulnerabilities in complex services and applications that power the Azure cloud? Are you passionate about keeping customers safe and building secure-by-default mitigations to protect customers? If all this sounds interesting, you should talk to us. The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise in one or more areas related to security architecture, penetration testing, network security, operating systems or web security. In addition, this position requires candidates to demonstrate technical curiosity, ability to review code, implement tools and automation as required, effective communication and collaboration to solve challenging security problems. This role is located in Redmond, WA. Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must relocate or reside within 50 miles of the office location. This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to 50%.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.
ResponsibilitiesTake a lead role in driving security reviews involving a combination of architecture reviews, threat modeling and penetration testingEffective collaboration with cross-functional teams to identify and help mitigate vulnerabilities in Azure core services.Act as a subject matter expert to provide consultation for security incidents as required and mentor other members of the team.Exercise technical curiosity and partner across security disciplines to help address security issues, patterns, and trends.Contribute to new and existing security tooling and automation to scale vulnerability discovery and mitigate classes of attacks. | |