Job description

The Senior Security Assurance Engineer will drive secure engineering policies, practices, and tooling across Microsoft services, ensuring the highest level of security and trust in customer experiences. The role requires experience in software development, cyber security, and anomaly detection, along with a strong focus on collaboration and customer engagement.

Responsibility

• 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.
• Any other reasonable activity directed by management.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in software development lifecycle, designing or developing Software and Services, large scale computing, modelling, cyber security, anomaly detection.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Networking, Information Assurance, Cyber Security, Mathematics, Risk Management, or related field.
• Equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience in identifying security vulnerabilities, software development, large-scale computing, modelling, cyber security, and anomaly detection.
• Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
• 4+ years of experience with Secure Software Development practices.
• 3+ years experience with implementing security controls and process for hyper-scale computing platforms.