Security 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 to hire a Senior Security Engineer to join our team. In this role, the Senior Security Engineer will work alongside a team of security professionals and play a critical role in protecting Microsoft and our millions of customers and their data from security threats. Your responsibilities will include defining effective security controls, design security mitigations, partnering with engineering teams in implementing security controls, and defining security best practices to ensure that Microsoft's approach addresses both current and emerging security issues.

　　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.

　　Responsibilities

　　In this role you will:

　　Define security Policies and translate Security policy and standards to effective controls.

　　Develop solutions to Identify & detect against specific threats and security control failures.

　　Design systems to address identified control issues and make data-driven recommendations to improve security posture.

　　Analyze trends in threats that inform prioritization for security defense building capabilities.

　　Other:

　　Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)Qualifications

　　Required Qualifications:

　　5+ years' experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection

　　OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field

　　2+ years' experience in infrastructure security assessment programs or equivalent assurance related experience

　　Other Requirements:

　　Ability 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:

　　Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.Security Research IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 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

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