Principal Security Researcher

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. 

Microsoft's Mission is to "Empower every person and every organization to achieve more" and Security is core to that statement. Microsoft's identity and authentication product portfolio, powered by Microsoft Entra, provide secure, seamless access to applications, devices, and data while protecting users from evolving cyber threats. With passwordless authentication, conditional access, and AI-driven security, Microsoft enables organizations to strengthen identity protection and simplify access management. Designed for enterprises and developers alike, Microsoft’s identity platform ensures compliance, scalability, and innovation in securing digital environments. 

The Identity Security team safeguards Microsoft Entra and Microsoft products by preventing, detecting, mitigating, and responding to security threats. We seek a Principal Security Engineer with expertise in Security Risk Engineering to drive our continued world-class risk management program. This position requires a strong passion for technology, growth engineering, data-informed decision making, partner engagement, and most of all: customer focus. If this sounds like something you would like to do, we’d love to talk to you! 

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. 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. 

Responsibilities

• • Blending security principles with engineering practices, proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks throughout systems, software, and infrastructure lifecycles. 
  • Collaborating closely with Engineering teams, documenting and ranking risks, developing mitigation strategies, and ensuring prioritization of development work to reduce company-wide risks. 
  • Translating risks into actionable activities, enabling engineering teams to execute with clarity and influence road maps effectively. 
  • Diving deep into data sources, analyzing patterns of current and emerging risks for informed decision-making. 
  • Evaluating documented risks, enhancing clarity, and identifying missing risks or potential gaps. 
  • Engaging with Security Engineers, strengthening understanding of Identity threat landscapes while integrating insights from across the company to refine risk documentation. 
  • Advancing risk measurement methodologies, tracking reduction progress, and showcasing wins to leadership. 
  • Driving tooling requirements, supporting company-wide risk management processes. 
  • Collaborating with the Deputy