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Senior Security Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Mar 04, 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. Microsoft Azure is at the center of Microsoft's cloud services strategy. Azure brings together virtualization, compute, storage, authentication, authorization, artificial intelligence and machine learning, media and more to enable anyone to bring their business in the cloud. We are seeking a diligent, insightful, and creative Senior Security Engineer to discover, diagnose, analyze, quantify, characterize and help drive solutions for the most challenging security problems in Azure through variant hunting. Variant hunting is an inductive investigation technique, going from the specific to the general, which explicitly recognizes that vulnerabilities occur in patterns. Using newly discovered vulnerabilities as a jumping-off point, you will conduct detailed research looking for additional and similar vulnerabilities, generalize the learnings into patterns, and then partner with engineering, governance, and policy teams to develop holistic and sustainable defenses. In this role, you will advance security by working with other Security Engineers, Program and Product Managers, and Developers, as well as business leaders throughout Microsoft to turn individual findings and vulnerabilities into patterns and insights that can be measured and managed through engineering, automation, and other appropriate mitigations. You will identify the most demanding security problems through original research and data analysis and help design and deliver practical solutions at scale for select products and services. This role is not confined to any particular area of technology; rather, you will work up and down the stack, across platforms, operating systems, languages, and frameworks, using your broad security skills to solve problems in unfamiliar domains. 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.In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesAnalyze and categorize newly discovered vulnerabilities to understand contributing causesUsing insights gained from the analysis, develop ways to discover similar vulnerabilities at scale in other Azure products and servicesPartner with engineering teams to develop appropriate solutions and toolsPartner with policy and governance orgs to develop the right policies, metrics, and systems to ensure solutions and tools are adopted and applied broadly | |