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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. Our team sits at the intersection of identity, data security, and platform engineering, building foundational capabilities that enable secure-by-default behavior across Microsoft’s services and developer ecosystem. We focus on designing durable, reusable security primitives that scale across products, reduce systemic risk, and simplify how teams adopt least‑privilege and data protection practices. The work demands strong technical depth, cross‑org collaboration, and the ability to translate security intent into reliable platform outcomes used by thousands of engineers and services. We operate with an outcome‑driven mindset, balancing innovation with operational rigor, and partner closely across engineering, governance, and product teams to raise the security bar at scale.
Job Responsibility:
Design, implement, and ship core security capabilities that are reused across services, focusing on correctness, scalability, and long‑term maintainability
Own well‑scoped problem areas end‑to‑end, translating security requirements into concrete designs, high‑quality code, and production‑ready solutions
Work across identity, authorization, and data boundaries to deliver least‑privilege and data‑protection improvements that meaningfully reduce real‑world risk
Collaborate closely with partner engineering teams, integrating with shared platforms and ensuring solutions are usable, adoptable, and reliable in practice
Operate effectively in high‑throughput, multi‑tenant environments, making sound engineering trade‑offs around performance, safety, and operational readiness
Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship, helping improve quality and clarity within the team
Requirements:
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, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, 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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Experience building or operating security‑critical, multi‑tenant services, including working with authentication, authorization, data access, or protection mechanisms in production environments
Demonstrated ability to deliver complex features end‑to‑end—from design through rollout and operational support—while collaborating across multiple engineering teams or shared platforms.
Nice to have:
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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, 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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Experience building or operating security‑critical, multi‑tenant services, including working with authentication, authorization, data access, or protection mechanisms in production environments
Demonstrated ability to deliver complex features end‑to‑end—from design through rollout and operational support—while collaborating across multiple engineering teams or shared platforms.