Software Engineer II \ Senior Software Engineer - Microsoft Red Team

**We have multiple positions open for Software Engineer II and Senior Software Engineers to be hired in the Red Team.**

The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

The Microsoft Red Team attacks ALL Microsoft services, continually – identifying critical, systemic risks, demonstrating authentic attack chains and techniques, and working with engineering teams, investigators, and incident responders to continuously improve their ability to protect, detect, investigate, and respond to real attacks.

Microsoft Red Team is launching the AI Adversary Lab (AIAL) in ILDC (Microsoft Israel Development Center), a new extension of the Microsoft Red Team, to address the growing threat of AI-enabled adversaries through deep engineering and applied research.

The engineering team in AIAL will collaborate with U.S.-based Red Team engineers and Red Team operators to enhance and scale an AI-driven adversary emulation platform that we use to protect Microsoft. This new team will bring together deep expertise in large-scale artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, and generative models to address emerging security threats in Microsoft’s complex and rapidly evolving digital environment. Defending one of the world’s most diverse enterprise environments offers an unparalleled opportunity to build, deploy, and assess autonomous red teaming and defense capabilities using cutting-edge AI techniques.

As a  Software Engineer II / Senior Software Engineer in the Microsoft Red Team, you will focus on designing, building, and delivering advanced red team tools that leverage LLMs and autonomous agents to automate and enhance red teaming operations. This role will involve building practical, production-grade security capabilities to help Microsoft stay ahead of evolving cyber threats.

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.

Responsibilities

As a founding member of the AIAL group within Microsoft Red Team, you will help shape the team’s culture and practices.

• Design, implement, and support AI-driven red team services using both generative and traditional AI techniques.
• Contribute to red team tools for use by both human operators and AI-powered red teaming services.
• Collaborate with engineers, security researchers, red team operators, and cross-functional teams globally to deliver high-quality features, drive innovation, and meet project goals.
• Continuously learn and apply new technologies to improve our services.
• Drive Microsoft’s security improvements through realistic and effective red team operations.
  
  

Qualifications

Our teams focuses on the diversity of all types of candidates, and we strive to hire people with different experiences and perspectives into our teams. To that end, we know that no candidate has every desired skill and experience, but together we make a strong, effective teams. 

• You have a B.Sc. or M.Sc. in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience. 
• You have 5+ years of professional hands-on software development experience in an OOP programming languages (C# or Java preferred).
• Demonstrate success dealing with ambiguous “unsolved” problems; and the ability to independently make solid progress by breaking new ground .
  
  

Preferred Qualifications 

• Previous experience conducting or supporting red teaming, penetrating testing, or offensive security capabilities.
• Experience in Red Teaming, malware development or offensive cyber operations.
• Experience with prompt engineering or developing applications utilizing LLMs including designing, testing, and integrating prompts for LLM-based systems in production or research settings.
• Experience in designing, building, and operating large-scale resilient distributed systems. 
  
  

Other Requirements

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  
  

 

By applying to this position, you are being considered for multiple like positions within our organization for an invitation-only virtual Interview Day. Position specifics, including hiring team, location, and position details will be determined following the interview process. 

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