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Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 May 01, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security 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. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our SSP orgnaization within Microsoft Security. At SSP (Services Security and Privacy), we build and scale cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions that safeguard Microsoft's vast ecosystem. Our team is at the forefront of engineering applications and frameworks that address some of the most critical challenges in the security domain-including, but not limited to: - Data Protection: Developing secure data lifecycle solutions that ensure confidentiality, integrity, and compliance across services. - Ecosystem Security: Hardening the security posture of the broader Microsoft application ecosystem through threat modeling, secure development practices, and continuous monitoring. - Intrusion Detection and Prevention: Designing and deploying intelligent systems to detect anomalies, mitigate intrusions in real time, and proactively block threats before they materialize. - Access Management Security: Innovating secure and scalable access control systems that support fine-grained authorization, zero trust principles, and seamless user experiences. We operate at cloud scale, partnering across engineering, product, and research teams to embed security and privacy by design. SSP is where security meets innovation, driving impact across billions of users and services worldwide.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.
ResponsibilitiesSimulate real-world identity and access threats to validate security boundaries, uncover abuse pathways, and inform proactive mitigations. Design and build tooling that automates detection and validation of authorization flaws at cloud scale-powering threat emulation across Microsoft services. Lead security deep dives into authentication and access control models, collaborating with engineers to embed least privilege and Zero Trust principles by default. Translate emerging threats into actionable insights, turning intelligence into real-world test cases that strengthen Microsoft's cloud security posture. Influence long-term security architecture, guiding secure identity patterns and policies across Azure and Microsoft's broader ecosystem. | |