Microsoft Principal Security Architect 

United States, Washington 

629316458

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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.
• 5+ years of experience working in security or backend architectural solutions.
• Experience driving cross organizational partnerships.

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.
• Leadership, empathy, interpersonal, and 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 4, 2025.

• Helping guide Engineering teams’ security best practices, finding scaling solutions to identify vulnerabilities and solutions for them.
• Help design solutions for security problems and partner with service teams and other security stakeholders to ensure adoption of solutions and mitigation of threats from beginning to end.
• Collaborating with teams across Microsoft Security Organization to help define the state of the art for detection and investigation data, enabling rabid and effective security investigations across product.
• Identifying emerging security problems that need additional focus, and contributing to building solutions to solve them, utilizing AI and other solutions.
• Works with others to synthesize research findings into recommendations for mitigation of security issues. Shares across teams. Drives change within team, based on research and penetration findings.
• Represent Microsoft in various customer discussions and security forums.