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Principal Security Engineer - Red Agent Team

Microsoft
Redmond, USA
Full-time
Senior · 6+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 4 days ago

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Own the architecture and long-term technical strategy for the Red Agents portfolio. Facilitate cross-team collaboration, identify dependencies, and resolve technical and organizational challenges that span teams and services. Drive the engineering roadmap in alignment with product goals, prioritizing investments and adopting new technologies and approaches where they provide meaningful value. Guide the team in making architectural and technical decisions, balancing scalability, security, reliability, maintainability, and delivery velocity. Champion experimentation and telemetry-driven development, enabling rapid iteration and data-informed decisions. Drive engineering excellence through automation, tooling, testing, and standardization across development, deployment, and operations. Own operational excellence and reliability practices, including SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, and ensuring post-incident learnings drive systemic improvements Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in security or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years experience in security or related field OR equivalent experience.

Experience

building Generative AI or agentic systems, including LLM orchestration, retrieval, tool use, evaluation, and safety guardrails.

Background in offensive security, red teaming, penetration testing, or adversary emulation, including familiarity with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.

Understanding of identity and authorization concepts such as least privilege, role-based access control (RBAC), delegated access, and multi-tenant isolation, especially for autonomous or AI-driven systems.

Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, align across teams and organizations, and clearly communicate technical tradeoffs and risks to engineering and leadership audiences.

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