Senior Software Engineer - Microsoft Red Team

Overview

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 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.

Responsibilities

• Become a founding member of the AIAL group as part of Microsoft Red Team. Help shape the team culture and practices.
• Design, implement, and support AI-driven red team services using generative as well as traditional AI techniques.
• Contribute to red team tools for use by both human operators and AI red teaming services.
• Collaborate with other engineers, security researchers, red team operators and cross-functional team members globally to deliver high-quality features, drive innovation, and meet project goals.
• Continuously learn and apply new technologies to improve our services.
• Ensure Microsoft continues to improve security through authentic red team attacks.
  
  

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 7+ years of professional hands-on software development experience in an OOP programming languages (C# or Java preferred).
• Hands-on experience conducting or supporting red teaming, penetrating testing, malware development, or offensive cyber security operations.
• Demonstrate success dealing with ambiguous “unsolved” problems; and the ability to independently make solid progress by breaking new ground .
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in 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.
  

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.