Microsoft
Senior/Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft Red Team
$120K–$304K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- Required: 4+ years technical engineering experience; equivalent experience accepted. Preferred alternatives: 8+ years with a master's degree or 12+ years with a bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience. Also preferred: 3+ years red team experience and 3+ years cloud technology experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Build offensive security software and platforms for CyberShield’s continuous, AI-driven red teaming across Microsoft and customer environments.
What you'll do
- Build tooling, implants, and agent-platform capabilities to automate reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, post-exploitation, and adversary emulation.
- Analyze engagement data and simulated adversary activity to identify security risks and inform defensive tactics and threat intelligence.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and communicate security risks with partners.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years technical engineering experience, or Bachelor's Degree and 12+ years, or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years performing red team security assessments or in a red team adjacent role; 3+ years with cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS, GCP.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base pay); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base pay); USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base pay); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base pay)
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Azure, AWS
AI focus
Develop agentic, AI-driven red teaming capabilities, including autonomous reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and post-exploitation.
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