Microsoft

Principal Security Architect

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1 day ago
Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define the technical strategy and architecture for Red Team visibility, telemetry, detection, deconfliction, and operational security.
  • Identify systemic visibility and control gaps from Red Team operations, security incidents, threat intelligence, and adversary activity, and translate them into engineering investments.
  • Architect and build scalable services and data pipelines that collect, normalize, enrich, and correlate Red Team telemetry.
  • Develop monitoring, hunting, detection, and alerting capabilities that distinguish authorized Red Team activity from genuine adversary behavior.
  • Build deconfliction capabilities combining operational context, asset and identity information, infrastructure signals, and behavioral telemetry while protecting sensitive information.
  • Own and evolve the authoritative inventory of Red Team assets, infrastructure, tooling, identities, and related metadata.
  • Improve testing, reliability, observability, secure development, deployment, and infrastructure lifecycle practices.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture, implementation, reviews, debugging, operational response, mentorship, and cross-team influence.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Coding experience in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Experience in cybersecurity, including areas such as security telemetry, detection engineering, security monitoring, incident response, threat analytics, cloud security, identity security, endpoint security, or offensive security infrastructure.
  • Experience designing distributed services, data pipelines, automation, or large-scale security platforms.
  • Ability to set technical direction in ambiguous problem spaces, identify systemic risks, and develop durable engineering solutions.
  • Ability to influence architecture, priorities, and execution across multiple teams and organizations and communicate with technical stakeholders.
  • 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 experience, or bachelor's degree and 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • The role has a U.S. base pay range of $142,800-$274,800 per year, with a separate range for specified San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan locations.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position will remain open for a minimum of five days and accepts applications on an ongoing basis until filled.

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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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