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Penetration Testing Engineer
MicrosoftUnited StatesUnited States, Washington
Remote
Full-time
0-25
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.
Are you passionate about uncovering hidden vulnerabilities in complex systems and exploring new techniques for ethical hacking? Do you thrive on discovering post-exploitation methods for lateral movement across networks? Are you fascinated with staying current on computing threats? If so, the Regulated Industries Pentest Team at Microsoft is looking for you. As a Penetration Testing Engineer, you will be at the forefront of securing Microsoft products and services. Our team conducts manual assessments of products, services, and software within regulated industries, ensuring the highest levels of security. You'll play a pivotal role in streamlining workflows, enhancing team processes for greater efficiency and scalability, and providing innovative solutions to complex problems.
Join us in this exciting opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry and help shape the future of cybersecurity at Microsoft. Your intelligence, creativity, and dedication will be key to elevating our organization's security standards 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.
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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years experience in identifying security vulnerabilities, software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection.
- 3+ years of experience on penetration testing/red-teaming, cloud, services and network security.
- 3+ years of experience using penetration testing tools, including any of the following: Nessus, NMAP, Metasploit, Cobalt Strike, Burp Suite Pro, etc.
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 role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide proof of citizenship, U.S. permanent residency, or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.
This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science
- OR related field
- OR 4+ years experience in identifying security vulnerabilities, software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection.
- Coding skills, including any of the following languages: C#, Python, C++, Go, PowerShell, ASP.NET, JavaScript
- Proficient Understanding of security attacks against server/services/network infrastructure
- GPEN, GWAPT, GXPN, OSCP, OSCE, or similar certifications
- Trusted ability to quickly learn about new attack vectors and creativity to identify new threats.
- Effective collaboration skills and ability to deal with ambiguity.
- Experience with Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) emulation, purple teaming, and/or working with threat intelligence
- Experience exploiting bugs and bypassing security mitigations in operating systems
Penetration Testing IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $127,200 - $208,800 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 10, 2025
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a requestvia the Accommodation request form.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
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Penetration Testing Engineer
Location
United StatesUnited States, Washington
Workplace
Remote
Type
Full-time
Travel Requirements
0-25