Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Experience
- Required: 4+ years of technical engineering experience; preferred alternatives: 6+ years with a master’s degree, or 8+ years with a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Stanford
About the job
Builds and operates AI-native cybersecurity products and services for enterprise customers, from system design and model integration through production deployment and improvement.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and evolve AI systems for enterprise cybersecurity, including agentic workflows and model orchestration.
- Evaluate and integrate AI models and technologies; ensure production reliability, scalability, observability, cost efficiency, and safe deployment.
- Collaborate with product, security research, and data science teams, and support and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in one or more languages, 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 and 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or Bachelor’s Degree and 8+ years, or equivalent experience.
- Experience shipping production AI features; hands-on programming experience and effective multidisciplinary collaboration.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation
AI focus
Builds AI-native cybersecurity systems, including agentic AI that reasons, plans, and acts across security workflows; uses model integration, embeddings, vector stores, and retrieval-augmented generation.
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