Lead Principal Security Assurance Engineer

T he Cloud & AI 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 is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

The M365 product portfolio makes up some of the most widely used and trusted productivity applications and services in the world, and is driving AI value through CoPilots. Would you like to help us protect the billions of people these apps empower to accomplish more in their lives? It's a fun, dynamic, and always interesting set of problems securing these services and protecting our customers. M365 Security is a Growth Mindset team: We constantly take in new information from diverse sources like internal service partners, bug bounty reports, penetration tests, and external customer feedback to learn more about improving how we can keep our customer's data secure. We are tasked with keeping up with and even exceeding the pace of innovation that is required for Microsoft's mission: To empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. The M365 Security Team is looking for a Lead Principal Assurance Engineer to help us drive objectives to meet our goal of offering the most secure and trusted productivity experiences in the world, managing a team of highly capable Security professionals, and getting into the technical details of Security Reviews, Threat Models, and Security Architecture themselves too. This position requires a strong passion for technology, growth engineering, data-informed decision making, partner engagement, and most of all: customer focus. If this sounds like something you would like to do, we'd love to talk to you! 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.

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.

Responsibilities:

Driving Secure Engineering policies, practices, and tooling across user-facing services at Microsoft, including AI platforms and implementations

Helping guide Engineering Teams across Microsoft on security best practices

Collaborating with teams across Microsoft to help define the state of the art for detection, prevention, and elimination of security risks

Identifying emerging security problems that need additional focus, and contributing to building solutions to solve them, often utilizing AI

Mentoring others inside and outside of Microsoft on building secure platforms and systems

Plan and manage an expanding portfolio of security and privacy programs and track associated metrics

Create and present plans to management for driving security and privacy objectives across M365 services

Represent Microsoft in various customer briefings and security conferences

Other : Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications:

Required 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.
• 1+ year(s) people management.
• 4+ years experience in advising engineering teams on security architecture, and designing and implementing security controls. This includes: Red Teaming, Security Architecture Reviewer (full time), Penetration Testing (full time).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, or anomaly detection (enterprise experience) OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or related field AND 12+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, or anomaly detection (enterprise experience) OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years people management and/or informal/indirect team leadership experience.
• 4+ years managing a Security Architecture/SDL team.
• 4+ years experience managing technical security teams, with references.

Security Assurance M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 27th, 2025.

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