Software Engineer II

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.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to change the world around us. At Microsoft, we are committed to the advancement of AI driven by ethical principles. We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join us and create the AI Safety & Security platform to deliver on that promise. This role works broadly across Microsoft on all levels of the AI stack and the teams supporting this important transformation. Are you passionate about the safety and security of AI and how that intersects with our lives? This may be a great opportunity for you!

Who we are: We are the Artificial Generative Intelligence Security (AeGIS) team, and we are charged with ensuring justified confidence in the safety of Microsoft’s generative AI products. This encompasses providing an infrastructure for AI safety; serving as a coordination point for all things AI incident response; researching the quickly evolving threat landscape; red teaming AI systems for failures; and empowering Microsoft with this knowledge. We partner closely with product engineering teams to mitigate and address the full range of threats that face AI services – from traditional security risks to novel security threats like indirect prompt injection and entirely AI-native threats like the manufacture of Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery (NCII)  or Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) or the use of AI to run automated scams. We are a mission-driven team intent on delivering trustworthy AI and response processes when it does not live up to those standards. We are always learning. Insatiably curious. We lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from our mistakes. We build on each other’s ideas, because we are better together. We are motivated every day to empower others to do and achieve more through our technology and innovation. Together we make a difference for all of our customers, from end users to Fortune 50 enterprises. Our team has people from a wide variety of backgrounds, previous work histories, and life experiences, and we are eager to maintain and grow that diversity. Our diversity of backgrounds and experiences enables us to create innovative solutions for our customers. Our culture is collaborative and customer focused.

What we do: The AI IR engineering team is part of the AI Safety & Security Platform and works alongside the front-line subject matter experts detecting and responding to incidents across Microsoft’s AI services. AI has the potential to transform our daily interaction with technology. Our team keeps the outcome focused on justified trust in Microsoft’s AI services. We are passionate about ensuring that the transformational opportunities outweigh the possible harms. When harm occurs, we address them in a timely manner. We work to consistently improve the resiliency of the systems that enable defenders to protect our AI products and services. Our team tightly partners throughout Microsoft so that we learn from and share experience in order to prevent harms before they happen. How you can help: Bring your passion for security and safety, along with your engineering experience, expertise in building scalable software solutions, and desire to be on the cutting edge of generative AI.  We collaborate closely with incident responders and security analysts to quickly build tools and automation in support of the effective resolution of AI safety and security issues. The ideal candidate will have experience shipping scalable, deeply integrated applications and tools to automate manual processes and enable new capabilities. Your passion for customer experience, ability to communicate technical details cross-functionally, and keen eye to spot opportunities to automate will aid you greatly in this role.  

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.

Required Qualifications:

• 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 Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring production systems and/or application frameworks.

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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master'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 Python

OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

• Knowledge of traditional cybersecurity concepts and techniques Familiarity with Generative AI, LLM orchestration, and hosting ML models
• Experience working with .NET and Azure in production Experience building and maintaining client libraries or SDKs.
• Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern distributed software design patterns and cloud systems architecture, including microservices, containers, load-balancing, queuing, caching.
• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational and functional boundaries.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 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 this role until January 17, 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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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.

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• Develop and deliver full-stack security solutions in an evolving and fast-paced development environment, with focus on engineering fundamentals like stability, performance, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with diverse partners across Microsoft’s security community and AI product teams to develop innovative approaches for detecting and mitigating threats at scale.
• Design and build tools supporting the AI Red Team and AI incident response processes.
• Be a champion for customer security outcomes by providing relevant guidance and detection/mitigation recommendations.
• Work closely with applied science and research partners to bring theory to life in practical product implementations.
• Embody our Culture and Values

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• Embody our Culture and Values