Microsoft

Senior/Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft Red Team

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Redmond, WA, USASenior / Staff+
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Base Salary

$120k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Analyze Microsoft and customer engagement data to identify security weaknesses and breach points.
  • Partner with operational teams to execute targeted attacks that simulate real-world threat scenarios.
  • Design and build offensive tooling, implants, and agent-platform capabilities.
  • Automate reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, post-exploitation, and adversary emulation.
  • Develop tools and techniques that scale offensive emulation and vulnerability discovery.
  • Analyze simulated adversary tactics and communications to enrich defensive tactics and threat intelligence.
  • Build partnerships and communicate the impact of security risks to advocate for security improvements.
  • Mentor and guide Software Engineers.
  • Operate effectively in uncertain and novel environments and identify unknown risk areas.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Preferred: Master’s degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: 3+ years of experience performing red team security assessments or working in a red team-adjacent role.
  • Preferred: 3+ years of experience with cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
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About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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