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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.

Microsoft's Mission is to "Empower every person and every organization to achieve more" and Security is core to that statement. Microsoft's identity and authentication product portfolio, powered by Microsoft Entra, provide secure, seamless access to applications, devices, and data while protecting users from evolving cyber threats. With passwordless authentication, conditional access, and AI-driven security, Microsoft enables organizations to strengthen identity protection and simplify access management. Designed for enterprises and developers alike, Microsoft’s identity platform ensures compliance, scalability, and innovation in securing digital environments.

The Identity Security team safeguards Microsoft Entra and Microsoft products by preventing, detecting, mitigating, and responding to security threats. We seek a **Principal Security Engineer** with expertise in Security Risk Engineering to drive our continued world-class risk management program. 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!

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. 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

+ Blending security principles with engineering practices, proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks throughout systems, software, and infrastructure lifecycles.

+ Collaborating closely with Engineering teams, documenting and ranking risks, developing mitigation strategies, and ensuring prioritization of development work to reduce company-wide risks.

+ Translating risks into actionable activities, enabling engineering teams to execute with clarity and influenceroad mapseffectively.

+ Diving deep into data sources, analyzing patterns of current and emerging risks for informed decision-making.

+ Evaluating documented risks, enhancing clarity, and identifying missing risks or potential gaps.

+ Engaging with Security Engineers, strengthening understanding of Identity threat landscapes while integrating insights from across the company to refine risk documentation.

+ Advancing risk measurement methodologies, tracking reduction progress, andshowcasingwins to leadership.

+ Driving tooling requirements, supporting company-wide risk management processes.

+ Collaborating with the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (dCISO) for Identity, ensuring alignment and strategic execution.Our team values diversity and strives to hire individuals with varied experiences and perspectives. We understand that no candidate possesses every desired skill and experience, but together, we form a strong, effective team.

Other

+ Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

+ 7+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection

+ OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.

+ Proficiency in threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, and security risk documentation, ensuring clarity and strategic risk management.

+ Expertise in Security Risk Engineering, with a strong foundation in security principles, risk assessment methodologies, and mitigation strategies.

+ Experience in collaboration with engineering teams, senior leadership, and security experts.

+ Experience with engineering roadmaps, ensuring security risks are effectively addressed in development priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

+ Proven ability to collaborate with security engineers, refine risk management strategies, and influence security roadmaps. Deep knowledge of identity security, authentication protocols (OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML), and adversarial research methodologies.

+ Strategic Leadership & Collaboration – Experience working with executive stakeholders to define security frameworks. Ability to engage cross-functional teams, articulate business needs for productimprovement, and deliver effective communications to technical and non-technical audiences.

Security Research IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 28th, 2025.

Other Requirements: • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Preferred Qualifications: • Proven ability to collaborate with security engineers, refine risk management strategies, and influence security roadmaps. Deep knowledge of identity security, authentication protocols (OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML), and adversarial research methodologies. • Strategic Leadership & Collaboration – Experience working with executive stakeholders to define security frameworks. Ability to engage cross-functional teams, articulate business needs for product improvement, and deliver effective communications to technical and non-technical audiences.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .