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Senior Security Engineer

Microsoft

Microsoft

Software Engineering
CAD 108,100-199,700 / year
Posted on Apr 11, 2025

Senior Security Engineer

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Date posted
Apr 10, 2025
Job number
1817524
Work site
Up to 100% work from home
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Security Engineering
Discipline
Penetration Testing
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

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.

Do you want a career where you can continuously grow your knowledge and skills in cyber security? Do you want to connect with supportive and security minded teammates and leaders? Then come join the M365 Application Security team! You’ll get to explore new ways to find and prevent security flaws to protect millions of customers. You’ll be recognized for innovating novel techniques to secure the biggest services on the planet like Exchange, Sharepoint and Teams. You’ll work with diverse Software Developers from all around the world, to help keep our customers’ data safe.


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.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in identifying security vulnerabilities, software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • At least 5 years developing or testing web applications and web APIs
  • Experience identifying security flaws using penetration testing, static and dynamic analysis

Penetration Testing IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $108,100 - CAD $199,700 per year.

Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 18, 2025.

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Responsibilities

  • Discovers security flaws in M365 web services leveraging penetration testing techniques and code reviews
  • Develops vulnerability detection tools, including static analysis and innovative solutions to find flaws at scale
  • Documents findings and remediation recommendations to effectively address vulnerabilities
  • Reproduces exploits and works across Microsoft on root cause analysis to assess the impact to all services
  • Collaborates with other Offensive Security personnel to leverage the latest trends and identify good opportunities to attack
  • Builds relationships with Software Developers to provide meaningful advice to improve security
  • Influences and guides the strategic direction of the team
  • Mentors and coaches team members

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.