Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer - MDASH
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years technical engineering experience; Master's degree plus 6+ years or Bachelor's degree plus 8+ years (or equivalent experience) is preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Build and evolve MDASH’s AI-powered code-scanning engine to detect and validate vulnerabilities, generate fixes, and operate reliably at enterprise scale.
What you'll do
- Design and improve agent orchestration, code understanding, vulnerability detection, reachability validation, and fix generation and verification.
- Expand language and framework coverage; integrate program analysis techniques and improve scan precision, quality, performance, and reliability.
- Collaborate across research, science, model, and product teams; write and review code, participate in on-call rotations, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience coding in a listed language, OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice to have
- Experience building production systems with large language models, AI agents, or code-understanding systems.
- Experience with security scanners or program analysis, cloud services on Azure, and/or multiple software ecosystems.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary) for the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area.
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Azure
AI focus
Build AI-agent and multi-model systems for code understanding, vulnerability detection and validation, and security-fix generation and verification.
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