Security Software Engineer

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.

Are you passionate about security and innovation? Do you want to work on cutting-edge solutions that help protect Microsoft and its customers from cyber threats? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

We are looking for an Attack Simulation Platform Engineer to join our Dublin based team and help us build the next generation of attack simulation platforms. You will be part of a highly skilled and collaborative team that works closely with security researchers and defenders to create realistic and impactful simulations of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). You will use your engineering skills to design, develop, and deploy cloud-based solutions that provide the platform to generate and execute attack scenarios across Microsoft's products and services. You will also be responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and scalability of your solutions, as well as supporting them in production.
As an Attack Simulation Platform Engineer, you will have the opportunity to grow your skills in the security domain, learn from experts, and contribute to Microsoft's mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

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.

· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline.
· 2+ years of experience in developing C# applications.
· 2+ years of experience in developing Azure-based cloud services.
· Strong problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
· Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
· Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
· Basic knowledge of machine learning concepts and frameworks.
· Basic knowledge of security concepts and principles.

Preferred Qualifications: 

· Experience with Powershell, Python and other scripting languages a plus

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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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

· Work with attack engineers and partner teams to design and develop new attack simulation platform features and capabilities.
· Develop, release, and support new features in production using C# and Azure-based cloud services.
· Create high quality, well tested, and innovative solutions to drive advancement in the attack simulation space.
Collaborate with other engineers, researchers, and defenders to share insights, feedback, and best practices.