Senior 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 Microsofts 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 lifechanging innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Microsofts 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 Its 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 customers data secure. We are tasked with keeping up with and even exceeding the pace of innovation that is required for Microsofts mission: To empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

The M365 Security Team is looking for a Senior Security Assurance Engineerto help us drive objectives to meet our goal of offering the most secure and trusted productivity experiences in the world and getting into the technical details of Security Reviews Threat Models and Security Architecture across the all of Microsofts productivity suite. This position requires a strong passion for technology growth engineering datainformed decision making partner engagement and most of all: customer focus. Were particularly looking for a Virginiabased Engineer to help us support our Europebased Product Engineers as well as some noncleared governmentrelated deployments. If this sounds like something you would like to do wed love to talk to you!

Microsofts 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.

As a Senior Security Assurance Engineer in the team you will be responsible for:

• Driving Secure Engineering policies practices and tooling across userfacing 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.
• Any other reasonable activity directed by management.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Statistics Mathematics Computer Science Risk Management Cyber Security or related field
  • OR 5 years experience in software development lifecycle large scale computing modeling cyber security anomaly detection
  • OR equivalent experience
• 5 years experience in software development lifecycle designing or developing Software and Services large scale computing modeling cyber security anomaly detection OR Masters Degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Computer Networking Information Assurance Cyber Security Mathematics Risk Management or related field OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements

• Citizenship Requirement:This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control
  regulations potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export
  Administration Regulations the EU Dual Use Regulation and/or other export control regulations.
  As a condition of employment the successful candidate will be required to provide proof of
  citizenship U.S. permanent residency or other protected status (e.g. under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)3
  for assessment of eligibility to access the exportcontrolled information. To meet this legal
  requirement and as a condition of employment the successful candidates citizenship will be
  verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents refugees and asylees may verify status
  using other documents where applicable.
• Citizenship Requirement:This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenshipbased legal restrictions. Specifically this position supports United States federal state and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenshipbased restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement and as a condition of employment the successful candidates citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.
• 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:

• 5 years experience in advising engineering teams on security architecture and designing and implementing security controls. This includes: Red Teaming Security Architecture Reviewer (full time) Penetration Testing (full time)

Security Assurance IC4 The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117200 $229200 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 $153600 $250200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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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 requestvia the Accommodation request form.

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