About the position
Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security 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. The ‘Microsoft Red Team Engineering’ team develops red team tools for use by human operators. We also build AI (Artificial Intelligence) red team services that automate those same tools for security defenders. We are looking for a software engineer interested in building AI capabilities that automate end-to-end red team engagements; advancing state of the art use of generative AI and agentic systems, developing and leveraging their understanding of attacker TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures), building novel yet robust online services, and learning from some of the most experienced offensive tool developers in the industry. In this role, you’ll help build cutting edge capabilities designed to scale red team insights to defensive stakeholders across Microsoft. Our engineers come from diverse backgrounds, are passionate about our products, and grounded in our customers’ needs. Our team values thoughtful engineering, the ability to develop strong relationships with your peers and partners, and the ability to focus on the outcomes that matter. 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.
Responsibilities
- Build AI capabilities that automate end-to-end red team engagements.
- Advance state of the art use of generative AI and agentic systems.
- Develop and leverage understanding of attacker TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures).
- Build novel yet robust online services.
- Learn from experienced offensive tool developers in the industry.
- Help build cutting edge capabilities designed to scale red team insights to defensive stakeholders across Microsoft.
Requirements
- Experience in software engineering.
- Strong understanding of AI and its applications in security.
- Knowledge of attacker TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures).
- Ability to develop strong relationships with peers and partners.
- Focus on outcomes that matter.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with generative AI.
- Background in security tools development.
- Passion for security products.
