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Principal Security Architect

Microsoft· Security Assurance
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Hybrid (Multiple Locations)$142.8k - $274.8kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

The Cloud & AI organization at Microsoft seeks a Principal Security Architect to combine engineering rigor with security expertise, translating requirements into durable, reusable patterns and partnering with engineering teams to deploy them. The role focuses on maintaining a current view of productivity risk, communicating risk to non-security stakeholders, and shaping roadmaps and priorities in a dynamic, heterogeneous environment.

Responsibilities

  • Keep a current read on productivity risk, maintaining a running synthesis of where the environment stands and rapidly incorporating signal as it evolves.
  • Represent the security position in the room, and be prepared to go deep with engineers.
  • Work closely with our engineering partners to build the tools and repeatable patterns that both reveal risk and help close it.
  • Make risk legible to people who do not work in security: what it means, what it costs, and what happens if it waits.
  • Decide what gets worked on next, making the call when the answer is not obvious and the facts are incomplete, then revisiting it when conditions change.
  • Turn every interaction into updated priorities and those priorities into roadmaps teams can run.

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, or anomaly detection
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or related field AND 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, or anomaly detection
  • OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Risk assessment and prioritizationCommunication with non-security stakeholdersEngineer collaboration and patterns deploymentDecision-making under uncertainty
Nice to have:Threat modeling and security architecture
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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