Senior Software Engineer

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.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help us build out the most ambitious and advanced static analysis solution in the world, empowering us to centrally search across all of Microsoft’s code for security vulnerabilities, malicious code, and other interesting security patterns. We are looking for someone interested in building a highly scalable, world class platform which can detect and eliminate vulnerabilities both within Microsoft’s billions of lines of code, and in the open source software of the world. This is an opportunity to do something that has never been attempted before, and it comes with its own unique and exciting challenges and opportunities. In this role you will contribute to the design and development of a platform that can proactively identify vulnerabilities across Microsoft’s products and services, research new vulnerability patterns, collaborate with Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) to rapidly assess billions of lines of code for newly reported vulnerability variants and classes. You will also have the opportunity to research new uses for static analysis, such as back door/malicious code detection and automatic generation of fuzzing test harnesses that will broaden impact and fuel other research. Whenever we can, we open source our work and you will also be empowering the broader community of CodeQL users in GitHub and at other enterprises. Our team is fortunate to regularly collaborate with the myriad of skilled security teams in the Microsoft product groups, the language experts in Microsoft’s compiler and developer tools team, the engineers directly working on the CodeQL engine in GitHub, and response and threat intel teams charged with watching the evolution of vulnerabilities in the ecosystem. This opportunity will keep you on the frontier of the software security landscape, supported by some of the leading security experts, and will help inform your requirements to build a highly scalable, proactive, analysis engine for source code.

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.

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.