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Responsibilities
As a Senior/Principal Software Engineer in the Compass group, you will design, build, and deliver cloud-scale capabilities for cryptographic asset discovery, risk assessment, and remediation. You will use LLMs and autonomous agents to automate and enhance how organizations manage and address cryptographic risk. This role involves building practical, production-grade security capabilities that help customers secure their cryptography and become quantum-safe.
Design, implement, and support cloud-scale services for cryptographic asset discovery, risk assessment, posture management and remediation capabilities.
Build AI-driven and agentic capabilities that identify, prioritize, and remediate cryptographic risks and speed up post-quantum readiness.
Collaborate with engineers, security researchers, product managers, and cross-functional teams across Microsoft to deliver high-quality features, drive innovation, and meet project goals.
Continuously learn and apply new technologies to improve our services.
Contribute to the team's engineering practices and culture as an early member of a new group.
Qualifications
We are hiring for multiple roles in Project Compass, a new product group in the Security GCR organization, across both Senior Software Engineer and Principal Software Engineer levels.
You have at least 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building production systems in languages such as C#, Java, Rust, Go, or Python.
Proven experience designing, building, and operating complex, scalable, reliable, and secure distributed cloud services.
Strong system design skills for high-scale systems, including architecture, performance, resiliency, observability, and maintainability.
Experience owning features/services/products end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, integrations and operations.
Preferred Qualifications
B.Sc., M.Sc., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
Experience building and shipping AI/LLM or agentic capabilities in production or advanced prototypes, including prompt/workflow design, evaluation, and integration.
Knowledge of security systems and cybersecurity fundamentals.
Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with cryptographic infrastructures and the following: PKI, keys, certificates, Identity and digital signatures, cryptographic protocols and libraries.
Experience building cybersecurity products, cloud security platforms, or large-scale security data platforms (such as ingestion pipelines, connectors, and graph-based models).
Demonstrated ability to drive ambiguous 0-to-1 problems into clear architecture and executable milestones.
Strong cross-functional collaboration with engineering, security research, and product teams.
Experience in early-stage or startup-like product incubation environments.
Familiarity with compliance frameworks and security standards (for example: NIST, FIPS, PCI, and sector-specific regulations).
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.
