Senior Security Engineer, Penetration Testing Specialist

4 weeks ago


Redmond, Washington, United States Microsoft Corporation Full time
Job Summary

Microsoft Corporation is seeking a highly skilled Senior Security Engineer, Penetration Testing to join our team. As a key member of our security team, you will be responsible for identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities in our production and internal systems.

Key Responsibilities
  • Perform penetration testing activities to identify unknown vulnerabilities and define a plan for remediation.
  • Provide security guidance and specify app security controls to evaluate existing security controls for new services, apps, features, APIs, devices, and third-party connections.
  • Participate in threat hunting activities using tools and data available, making recommendations to enrich data sources for more accurate correlation.
  • Track sophisticated adversaries and use 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 and make technology recommendations.
  • Drive and cultivate a positive culture of security across the engineering teams, training product engineering to recognize bad patterns and innovate ways for developers to learn to identify security bad practices.
  • 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.

Requirements
  • 5+ years of experience in identifying security vulnerabilities, software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection.
  • 5+ years of professional experience in penetration testing/red-teaming, including familiarity with tools like Burp Suite, good knowledge of cloud, services, and network security.
  • 3+ years of programming experience in C/C++, C# or similar language.
  • Knowledge in common classes of software vulnerabilities such as XSS, CSRF, SQLi, OWASP Top 10, cryptographic attacks and beyond.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience exploiting bugs and bypassing security mitigations in online services.
  • Experience managing security compliance related engineering programs and security infrastructure.
  • Proven ability to collaborate and establish key threat intelligence partnerships to bolster information sharing and defenses.
  • Outstanding collaboration and partnership skills, with proven ability to drive results across teams.

About Microsoft

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.

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