Software Security Engineer II - CTJ - Top Secret

The Cloud & Artificial intelligence (AI) organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

Microsoft Sovereign Cloud Security is looking for candidates that can thrive in a non-traditional, agile environment at the cutting-edge of the security market. Our group is responsible for providing organizations with the best security solution for their cloud environment, allowing for visibility, governance, and protection over their infrastructure, platforms, and application solutions.

We are looking to hire a Software Security Engineer II to join a fast-paced team solving complex security and systems focused problems in the sovereign cloud security space. You will work closely with a distributed engineering team, product management, customer experience, and customers in addition to the central Azure organization leveraging the best platforms that Microsoft has to offer.

The Software Security Engineer II will play a key role driving efforts to improve security in the sovereign cloud environment. This includes working with teams throughout the organization to identify and address security vulnerabilities and compliance issues and to educate users about security best practices. You will leverage your software development experience to design and implement solutions to security challenges in the Azure environment.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

Responsiblitities

• Develop tools and techniques to scale and accelerate security operations, vulnerability discovery, and security offerings.
• Leverage a broad and current understanding of security to devise and develop new protections and software security solutions.
• Work with security engineers to understand security findings, automate detection techniques, and develop tools and strategies for remediation.
• Design, build, and maintain Azure services that support the team’s security mission.Conduct ad hoc and prescriptive threat modeling and security reviews to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in the architecture of applications and services.
• Work with and assist other team members, external test teams, and pen testers at Microsoft in techniques and approaches to assess our environments.
• Work as part of an on-call rotation and contribute to multiple projects/demands simultaneously.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience identifying security vulnerabilities, cyber security, and/or cloud environments.
• OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements

Security Clearance Requirements Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.    
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.   
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance 

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in identifying security vulnerabilities, software development, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection
• Demonstrated impact in Software Development, DevOps, Penetration Testing, Security Testing, Purple Teaming, or related field.
• Experience with Secure Software Development practices
• Experience developing applications and services in a cloud computing environment
• Coding skills, in any of the following languages: C#, Python, C++, Go, PowerShell, ASP.NET, JavaScript
• OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional), OSCE (Offensive Security Certified Expert), GSEC, or similar certifications

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay 

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until OCTOBER 17, 2025

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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