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Microsoft Corporation

Senior Security Engineer, Penetration Testing

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, United States, 98052


OverviewSecurity is foundational to all product and service offerings from Microsoft. As part of the Microsoft AI Engineering team, you will collaborate with product engineering to innovate software design to defend against a continued and emerging security threat landscape. You will also be working on revolutionary technology with the Open AI ChatGPT integration with Microsoft AI services,We are seeking an experienced Senior Security Engineer, Penetration Testing to join our rapidly growing team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with native and managed code penetration testing (code audit, writing fuzzers, finding creative ways to break assumptions) and applying those skills to an online services portfolio, a clear understanding of security fundamentals, solid computer science skills, and a passion for keeping Microsoft customers safe.It starts with an interest in security, a strong technical background, and an appetite to explore, learn and break things to protect our customers!By applying to this U.S. Redmond,WA.position, youare required tobe local to the Seattlearea and in office 3 days a week. 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. ResponsibilitiesPerform penetration testing activities on production and internal systems to identify unknown vulnerabilities. Define a plan for remediation and drive accountability with engineering to address.Provide security guidance, specify app security controls, evaluate existing security controls for new services, apps, features, API's, devices, and third-party connections.Participate in threat hunting activities using tools and data available; make recommendations to enrich data sources for more accurate correlation.Track sophisticated adversaries and use your technical knowledge of adversary capabilities, infrastructure, and techniques to enhance detections and provide actionable intelligence to partner teams. Identify new data sources for threat hunting to fill gaps and increase visibility.Proactively research new technologies, make technology recommendations.Drive and cultivate a positive culture of security across the engineering teams. Train product engineering to recognize bad patterns and innovate ways for developers to learn to identify security bad practice.Develop and write or reuse automation tools to scale the testing quickly.Collaborate with other security teams across Microsoft to design and develop new security mitigations and defenses, with a focus on strategy and scalability.