Security Engineer

Microsoft is hiring a Security Engineer for its Identity Security Breach Preventions team. The role builds scalable engineering controls and automation to prevent recurring vulnerabilities across Microsoft’s identity services, translating breach learnings and threat signals into reusable protections.

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

Preferred

Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field

Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection

Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection

equivalent experience

3+ years experience in Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident response

Understanding of identity and access technologies, such as authentication and authorization protocols (OAuth, OIDC, SAML), tokens, certificates/PKI, and MFA

Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.

Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.

3+ years experience in Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident response.

SOC Detection

Threat Analytics

SIEM

Incident Response

Access Technologies

Authentication Protocols

Authorization Protocols

OAuth

OIDC

SAML

Token Management

Certificates

PKI

Multifactor Authentication

Company

Software, cloud computing, consumer electronics, and enterprise systems.

Redmond, Washington, USA

https://www.microsoft.com/

Founded in 1975

10001+ employees

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

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

equivalent experience

Equivalent experience

Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field

Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection

Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection

3+ years experience in Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident response

Understanding of identity and access technologies, such as authentication and authorization protocols (OAuth, OIDC, SAML), tokens, certificates/PKI, and MFA

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.

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.

Required skills

Cybersecurity, Software Development Lifecycle, Large-Scale Computing, Threat Analysis and Modeling, Vulnerability Research, Anomaly Detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) Detection, Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM), OAuth, OIDC, and SAML, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Security Incident Response

Preferred skills

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Experience

1+ years