4 days ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture, long-term technical strategy, and roadmap for the Red Agents portfolio.
- Lead cross-team collaboration, resolve technical and organizational dependencies, and guide architectural decisions across scalability, security, reliability, maintainability, and delivery velocity.
- Drive experimentation, telemetry-driven development, automation, tooling, testing, and standardization across development, deployment, and operations.
- Own operational excellence and reliability practices including SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, and post-incident systemic improvements.
- Partner with Product, Applied Science, Responsible AI, and internal red teams to develop customer-ready AI-driven offensive security capabilities.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field plus 4 or more years of experience in security or a related field; or bachelor’s degree in those fields plus 6 or more years of experience; equivalent experience is accepted.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Experience building generative AI or agentic systems with LLM orchestration, retrieval, tool use, evaluation, and safety guardrails is preferred.
- Background in offensive security, red teaming, penetration testing, or adversary emulation, including familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, is preferred.
- Understanding of least privilege, role-based access control, delegated access, and multi-tenant isolation is preferred.
- Ability to lead through ambiguity, align across teams and organizations, and communicate technical tradeoffs and risks to engineering and leadership audiences is preferred.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $142,800–$274,800 per year; the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range is USD $188,000–$304,200 per year.
- The position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
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About Microsoft
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.