Principal Security Operations Engineer

Job 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.

We are looking for a Principal Security Operations Engineer to join our Azure Security Monitoring team, which is responsible for building large scale microservices that collect and process terabytes of data every day to protect and keep Microsoft Azure secure.

In this role, you will help in designing and building critical infrastructure which will focus on protecting and securing the compute resources in Azure and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of security at Microsoft.

If you have an interest for data, coding, and cybersecurity and are interested in leveraging large volumes of data to draw deep insights designed to improve protecting customers against cyber-attacks, then apply today to join this dynamic team!

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.

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+ Embody our culture and values

**Responsibilities**

Design, develop and maintain high scale services that form the backbone of Security Monitoring.
Execute security controls, defenses, and countermeasures to intercept and prevent internal or external attacks or attempts to infiltrate company email, data, e-commerce, and web-based systems.
Research attempted or successful efforts to compromise systems security 
Collaborate with partners, internal and external to Microsoft Security organization, to design and build features that enable in protecting and securing Microsoft 1P products and services.
Work in a culture of continuous learning, adaptation, reflection, and growth.
Mentoring peers to ensure engineering best practices and code is held at a high-quality bar.
Championing a ‘can do’ attitude across the org.

**Qualifications**

**Required Qualifications**

+ Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
+ OR 7+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), and operations incident response.
+ 5+ years of experience programming in C++/C# or Python or Scala or similar technologies.

**Additional Qualifications**

+ Master's Degree or Doctorate Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
+ OR 10+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection.
+ SANS GCIA GCIH OSCP Security+ 2+ years of experience in applying AI/ML techniques to cybersecurity challenges, such as threat detection, anomaly detection, and malware analysis

Security Operations Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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 26, 2025

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.

Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .

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