Microsoft Software Engineer II

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Posted date: Oct 23, 2025

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Category: Software Engineering

Location: Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations

Estimated salary: $158,000
Range: $100,600 - $215,400

Employment type: Full-Time

Work location type: 0 days / week in-office - remote

Role: Individual Contributor


Description

The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

Do you thrive on creatively solving complex challenges and collaborating across large organizations to drive success? Want to work with a high performing team that delivers impact across Microsoft? The Microsoft Red Team Intelligence team is looking for a Software Engineer II for our internal security graph.

The CISO Org is Microsoft’s central cybersecurity authority, accountable for managing and prioritizing cybersecurity risk across the company. The Microsoft Red Team is responsible for finding and demonstrating risk to proactively identify and mitigate vulnerabilities. The Microsoft Red Team Intelligence Team is a specialized unit within the broader Red Team that focuses on generating actionable intelligence to support adversarial risk analysis. We provide data and insight to discover, assess, and track potential security and privacy risks exploitable by malicious actors, including Microsoft Red Team breach operators.

As a Software Engineer II, you will work with the team to design, implement, and validate insights, analytics, and automation capabilities that enables breach risk analysis at scale. You will enable the red team breach operators to operate more efficiently by providing framework and terrain for reconnaissance. Your work will help defenders to understand and prioritize remediation by providing automated vulnerability and impact assessments. You will deliver high quality engineering solutions while enabling Microsoft to strengthen our defenses.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

-Development of automation that contributes to the red team’s objectives & security outcomes

-Design, implement, validate, monitor solutions that systematize red team analytics & insights

-Create and implement code that is highly extensible, secure, reliable, and maintainable

-Collaborate with stakeholders and partners to enable cross-organizational red team intelligence sharing & security awareness



Qualifications

Required Qualification:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience. 1+ years of experience in a cybersecurity role or red team experience1+ years of experience working with graph technologies

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 IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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 31st, 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. 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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