Microsoft Principal Security Engineer 

United States, Washington 

815976888

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ year of experience inRisk Management, Cyber Security, or related field
  • ORequivalent experience
• 4+ years experience in application security or a closely related field.

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:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or related field
  
  • OR 7+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, cyber security, anomaly detection
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Working experience with JavaScript/Typescript, ReactJS, C++, C# and Azure.
• Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 30, 2025.

• You’ll help others identify potential security issues, tools, mitigations, and processes. You’ll also coach and mentor others.
• You’ll solicit input from customers and partners to improve security, and develop analytical tools to study common and uncommon issues. You’ll also address complex security issues, and develop and promote effective feedback channels.
• You’ll lead large-scale architectural and design security reviews for features areas, developing best practices for each and ensuring they’re in place. You’ll also critically assess the efficiency and effectiveness of reviews, while developing automation to analyze review content.
• You’ll schedule the security analysis of multiple feature areas, influencing product schedules, dependencies, and risk assessments while doing so, and proactively soliciting input from multiple stakeholders. You’ll also identify when numerous weaknesses make analysis difficult, and support security research of Microsoft products.