Principal Security Software Engineer

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.

Are you a Software Engineer rinterested in Artificial intelligence (AI) and excited about technologies like OpenAI? Do you want to develop software that empowers security professionals, engineers, and researchers to proactively identify risks in generative AI systems? We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help lead Microsoft's PyRIT Team (https://github.com/Azure/PyRIT) where you'll create software to emulate real-world attacks against Microsoft's AI products. We are part of the Microsoft AI Red Team, an interdisciplinary group of red teamers, adversarial Machine Learning (ML) researchers and software developers with the mission of identify risks in Microsoft's big bet AI systems.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. 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.

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor'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 equivalent experience.
• The ability to apply reference architecture and patterns for a variety of solutions (e.g., advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, analytics, security, etc.).
• Demonstrated knowledge of the engineering life-cycle that provides for task estimation, design and code review, specification review, bug triage, code check-in, sign-off, test targeting, and performance standards to meet customer and business goals

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:
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check:This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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 November 17, 2025.

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Responsibilities:

• Lead efforts to design, implement, and support AI-driven adversary emulation tooling.
• Support partner development teams and the open-source community in contributing to our services.
• Partner with internal defensive security teams to improve their detection, investigation, and response capabilities.
• Build relationships with peers through design and code reviews, and peer mentoring.
• Analyze emerging attack techniques from red teams, adversarial researchers, and external threat actors, leveraging these insights to develop and refine advanced security tooling.
• Embody our culture and values