Microsoft Senior Security Engineer

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Posted date: Oct 20, 2025

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Category: Software Engineering

Location: Redmond, WA

Estimated salary: $188,900
Range: $119,800 - $258,000

Employment type: Full-Time

Travel amount: 25.0%

Work location type: 3 days / week in-office

Role: Individual Contributor


Description

Imagine being at the forefront of secure innovation, enabling Microsoft Marketing to operate as a true Frontier Organization. As a Senior Security Engineer in the Marketing SWE discipline, you will drive secure development practices, build scalable solutions, and empower teams to innovate confidently ensuring every application, dataset, and infrastructure component is secure by design and secure by default.

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.   

Champion Secure Development: Drive secure coding practices and design reviews across Marketing services, infrastructure, and data. Partner with Service Owners and CISO teams to embed security into every stage of the development lifecycle. Consult and Solution: Act as a trusted consultant, helping teams architect security capabilities andbuild forscale. Develop reusable patterns and centralized solutions that simplify compliance and unlock agility across diverse Marketing applications. Incident Response: Own the response toidentifiedvulnerabilities, security incidents, risks, and escalations. Drive remediation, root cause analysis, and long-term strategies to prevent recurrence, ensuring Marketing’s data and services remain resilient. Advance Data Protection: Collaborate with data engineering, product, and Marketing service owners to implement organization-wide tooling and policy frameworks that protect sensitive data. Lead the deployment of data protection solutions that safeguard customer, employee, and business information. Build Security Automation: Develop automation, tooling, and solutions that enable secure by design and secure by default at scale. Empower Marketing teams to move quickly and confidently, knowing that security is seamlessly integrated into every workflow. Foster EngineeringExcellence: Coding standards, and robust code management for security solutions. Collaborate across engineering, product, and business teams to deliver end-to-end secure platform capabilities.  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 4+ years of experience in software engineering, cybersecurity, or technical program management. 4+ years of experience proven experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and modern data architectures, alongside expertise in incident response, remediation, and root cause analysis. 4+ years of experience demonstrated expertise in implementing data protection frameworks and privacy regulations, building scalable security automation solutions, and collaborating effectively across engineering, product, and business teams. Preferred Qualifications:

Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. OR equivalent experience. 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, Java, Python, or JavaScript Industry certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, or similar (preferred) Preferred. Experience in marketing, data engineering, or related domains Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 October 25, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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