Principal Security Assurance Engineer

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.

The M365 Cloud Security – Security Architecture Lifecycle Team for E+D (SALTed) is looking for a Principal Security Assurance Engineer to help us drive objectives to meet our goal of offering the most secure and trusted productivity experiences in the world, focusing in the AI/CoPilot space. This position requires a strong passion for technology, growth engineering, data-informed decision making, partner engagement, and most of all: customer focus.

Responsibilities:

• Driving Secure Engineering policies, practices, and tooling across user-facing services at Microsoft, focused on 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

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience in software development lifecycle, designing or developing Software and Services, large scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Networking, Information Assurance, Cyber Security, Mathematics, Risk Management, or related field
• OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• An extensive and diverse education, experience, and training, with a preference for a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Networking, Information Assurance, Computer Security, or a related technical discipline.