Software Engineer-Security Platform & AI

Overview

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 for a Senior Research Engineer to join our multi-disciplinary team to reshape how we defend Microsoft. You will establish and build processes and structures to empower research scenarios: from data engineering, construction of training data sets, creation of new telemetry sources, building of knowledge graphs, scalable infrastructure, and creation of agentic AI systems or new security-focused language models. You will design, implement and maintain software systems for autonomous defense, offense and incident response. You would be responsible for working together with applied scientists, engineers, and security researchers to design, implement and maintain systems to solve real-world scenarios and challenges. You would be responsible for working with teams across Microsoft to integrate with established and new services. For those passionate about making a meaningful impact in the security industry, don't miss this opportunity to join the team working on the latest AI technology and applicability.

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

• Acts as enablers to applied scientists and security researchers by creating software systems, infrastructure, services, and data pipelines using cloud technologies.
• Produce reliable and performant code and conduct design and code reviews to ensure alignment with standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with researchers on the design, development, execution, and implementation of software projects and cutting-edge AI based solutions that serve Microsoft Defenders.
• Incorporate state-of-the-art research or previously tested solutions occurring at Microsoft and academia and tune it to solve complex security challenges.
• Research and develop an understanding of tools, technologies, and methods being used in the community that can be utilized to improve product quality, performance, or efficiency.
• Follow release management policies to ensure data integrity, compliance, and system stability

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to python or C#, OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience building scalable software systems, preferably in python or C#.
• 2+ years of experience building, scaling, and operating Azure cloud services.
• 2+ years of experience building customer solutions or open-source projects using ML/generative AI and/or multi-agent frameworks such as AutoGen, LangChain, LangGraph, crewAI, or equivalent.

Qualifications - Other Requirements:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C# or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with building and deploying services on Azure including Azure Functions, Azure Containers, Azure DevOps pipelines, Github actions, Github Codespaces, and Jupyter Notebooks.
• Experience with Microsoft security products, including Sentinel, Defender, Security Copilot, etc.
• Experience with rapidly implementing and testing research ideas.
• Track record of code contributions to products and/or open-source projects.
• Experience with training and fine-tuning of transformer-based models, information retrieval or reinforcement learning
• Experience with MLOps.
• Experience in cyber security and safety domains, such as malware detection, fraud prevention, cyber-physical systems, adversary tradecraft, emerging threats or SOC operations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to simplify and explain complex ideas

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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.