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Posted date: Dec 02, 2025
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Category: Security Operations Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $188,900
Range: $119,800 - $258,000
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewMicrosoft Commerce + Ecosystems (C+E) organization is developing Microsoft's large scale and business critical backbone services to empower e-commerce for all of Microsoft's key businesses: Azure, Office 365, Xbox, Microsoft Online Store, and ensure great customers, partners, developers experiences critical to the overall success of Microsoft products and cloud services. We are looking for an experienced senior security engineer with a proven track record in security and software engineering to work across organization boundaries and to help driving continuous security posture improvement for a large multi-national division.
Responsibilities
Collaborating with broader security divisions across Microsoft, and engineering teams & business leaders throughout Commerce organization, leveraging the latest AI security defense tooling, threat modeling, security design analysis, and threat intelligence analysis to examine chosen target systems in details, looking for vulnerabilities and weaknesses in architecture, identifying security flaws, damage potential and high risk areas, conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis over those patterns, making appropriate and concise security recommendations, and guiding engineering teams to implement those recommendations.
Providing security consulting to ensure security requirements are met in early design & development phase
Assisting major security incident response for Commerce organization as needed by providing technical depth and expertise.
Prototyping and creating scripts, AI Agents and automation as appropriate to drive greater scale and efficiency with high value.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related fieldOR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident responseOR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), or operations incident responseOR equivalent experience.4+ years’ experience in a hands-on security role, with software engineering skills Additional or preferred qualificationsDoctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, or anomaly detection OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, or anomaly detection OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, or anomaly detection OR equivalent experience.
CISSP CISA CISM SANS OSCP Security+
Considerable professional experience and deep understanding of multiple cybersecurity domains: security protocols, classes of vulnerabilities, cryptography, digital identity & access management, secret management, threat hunting & modeling, digital forensisc.
Experience in threat modeling and security analysis
Demonstrated coding skills in one or more popular languages and platforms, including C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, and the ability to pick up new languages, platforms, and frameworks platforms quickly
Security Operations 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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