Senior Software Engineer - Cloud and Exposure Security (incubations)

If you are excited by innovation and exploration, passionate about cyber defense, and eager to shape the future of Cloud and Exposure Security, we invite you to join our Incubation & AI Transformation team. 

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Software Engineer with deep technical expertise, practical security knowledge, and an entrepreneurial mindset to drive incubation projects across diverse technologies, leveraging the latest in AI advances. This is a cross-disciplinary, high-visibility role where you’ll collaborate with teams across Microsoft and make a direct impact on the next generation of Microsoft Security products. 

Our team thrives in ambiguity. We identify and de-risk new ideas, run experiments, and transform learnings into practical contributions. We seek an engineer who excels in navigating uncertainty, crafting innovative solutions, and shaping early-stage technology architecture, while also communicating strategy clearly to audiences. 

In the Cloud and Exposure team, we take immense pride in developing a diverse set of security products and services that are leaders in their respective market segments. Our innovative solutions have set new industry standards, earning global recognition safeguarding critical infrastructure at the highest scale. Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) designed to protect cloud-based applications running in all major cloud providers. Microsoft Defender for Cloud secures cloud applications from code-to-cloud by unifying development security operations (DevSecOps) at the code level, cloud security posture management (CSPM) to surface and prevent breaches and cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) to identify, alert and block real-time cyber-attacks worldwide. 

Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will: 

• Act as a founding engineer in multiple incubation projects, driving business-critical initiatives that will define the future of Microsoft Security. 
• Rapidly ramp up and experiment with new technologies and domains, building on the latest AI services in Azure, applying strong technical judgment to de-risk ideas and validate opportunities. 
• Translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical requirements, KPIs, priorities, and deliverables. 
• Collaborate closely with engineering peers, security researchers, product managers, and partners across Microsoft to accelerate innovation. 
• Influence technical direction, provide mentorship, and contribute to shaping Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise security innovation roadmap. 

Qualifications

Required:

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience. 
• 5+ years of experience in cyber security domain. 

Other Requirments:

• BSC or MSC in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). 
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, quickly learn new domains, and move across multiple technical areas. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and leadership skills. 
• Demonstrated “can-do” attitude with an entrepreneurial mindset, driving concepts from inception through execution. 

Preferred:

• Experience in designing and building large-scale production systems. 
• Experience with Generative AI and building AI agents.
• Experience shipping products from incubation to production. 
• Hands-on experience with multiple cloud environments (Azure preferred, AWS, GCP).