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Security Engineer

Microsoft· Security Research
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Redmond, WA$102.1k - $202.2kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Security Engineer focused on scalable automation and analysis across vulnerability research, threat intelligence, and security risk posture monitoring within the Identity Security (IDSEC) Breach Preventions team, designing platform-level enforcement mechanisms to prevent vulnerabilities and integrating preventative controls into production environments.

Responsibilities

  • Translating breach learnings and threat actor behaviors into deterministic engineering controls that prevent recurrence across multiple services.
  • Designing platform level enforcement mechanisms that eliminate classes of vulnerabilities without requiring service by service remediation.
  • Developing reusable prevention frameworks and paved path security standards.
  • Partnering with engineering teams to integrate preventative controls into production environments while maintaining service reliability.
  • Enabling rapid deployment of security countermeasures across Microsoft’s identity fleet to proactively strengthen defenses against emerging threats.

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 2+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
  • OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Breachean or threat actor behavior translationPlatform-level enforcement designSecurity framework developmentProduction integration
Nice to have:Threat intelligence and vulnerability research
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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