24 hours ago
Cambridge, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Identify and analyze security vulnerabilities across operating system and platform components through design review, code review, fuzzing, and variant analysis.
- Develop and influence mitigations and protections that reduce platform risk and improve resilience against vulnerability classes.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate security into the development lifecycle and improve secure engineering practices.
- Develop and scale security tooling, detection capabilities, and analysis techniques for broader and earlier vulnerability detection.
- Translate security findings into systemic improvements and measurable security outcomes across organizations.
- Track attacker techniques, emerging vulnerability classes, and industry trends to improve Microsoft’s security posture.
- Provide technical leadership through direction setting, problem decomposition, and delivery of complex security initiatives.
Requirements
- Significant experience in security-related software engineering or another security-related field.
- Hands-on experience with systems-level programming languages such as C, C++, or Rust.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.
- Preferred: a public or internal track record of relevant security research.
- Preferred: understanding of operating system security fundamentals, including kernel or low-level platform components.
- Preferred: experience with vulnerability research, code review, fuzzing, reverse engineering, or exploit development.
- Preferred: experience developing or applying memory safety protections, sandboxing, or platform hardening techniques.
Benefits
- The role is based in the United Kingdom and requires passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
About Microsoft
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.