Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineering teams on threat modeling, security design reviews, and architecture assessments for cloud and AI-powered services.
- Develop security guidance, reference architectures, and remediation strategies to address systemic security risks and architectural anti-patterns.
- Influence engineers, architects, and product leaders to prioritize risks and accelerate security improvements.
- Use AI and automation to scale security assessments, improve risk identification, and expand security coverage.
- Investigate emerging technologies, cloud architectures, and AI workloads for novel attack paths and security weaknesses.
- Mentor engineering teams, enable self-service security capabilities, and promote secure development practices.
- Improve Microsoft’s security assessment methodologies, tooling, and processes.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or a related field and 4+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cybersecurity, or anomaly detection; or a bachelor's degree in one of these fields and 6+ years of relevant experience; or equivalent experience.
- Experience leading security strategy, architecture reviews, or security programs across multiple organizations or large-scale cloud services.
- Experience designing or securing distributed systems, cloud platforms, APIs, identity solutions, or AI-enabled applications.
- Knowledge of secure software development practices, common attack techniques, security controls, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Proven ability to identify systemic security risks and drive organization-wide risk reduction initiatives.
- Experience influencing senior engineering leadership and shaping security standards, guidance, or reference architectures.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
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About Microsoft
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