Senior Software Engineer MDASH
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Redmond, WA - USA
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Job Summary
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 Microsofts 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.
The MDASH team is reimagining how organizations identify and remediate vulnerabilities in source code. Using AI agents and models MDASH analyzes code to determine whether potential vulnerabilities are real and reachable provides developers with actionable fixes and helps verify that vulnerabilities have been successfully addressed.
Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and evolve the MDASH scanning engine as we work to advance agentic code this role youll design and build systems that coordinate AI agents and models to analyze complex codebases scale across programming languages and frameworks validate security findings generate high-quality fixes and deliver reliable efficient performance in production environments.
Youll work closely with security researchers applied scientists model teams and product managers to turn new techniques and evaluation insights into product capabilities. Were looking for an engineer with experience building complex large-scale systems foundational knowledge of application security and excitement about using AI to solve challenging problems in software security.
Microsofts 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.
Responsibilities
- Design build and evolve the MDASH scanning engine including agent orchestration multi-model routing code understanding vulnerability detection reachability validation and fix generation and verification.
- Extend the engines coverage across vulnerability classes programming languages frameworks build systems and codebase sizes from single services to large monorepos.
- Integrate program analysis techniques into agent workflows to make detections more precise and grounded. These include static and dynamic analysis taint tracking call-graph and data-flow analysis fuzzing and sandboxed execution.
- Improve the engines precision recall consistency and fix quality working from evaluation results research findings and production feedback.
- Optimize scan performance scalability cost and latency so MDASH works well on enterprise-scale codebases and in CI/CD workflows.
- Build a secure reliable observable engine with strong isolation for running untrusted code and clear telemetry for diagnosing agent behavior.
- Work with security research applied science model and product teams to bring new techniques and models into the engine quickly and safely.
- Track the agentic security and code-scanning landscape and bring forward ideas that make MDASH stand out against competitors.
- Write high-quality well-tested code. Lead design reviews take part in code reviews and on-call rotations and help raise the engineering bar for the team.
- Mentor other engineers and model Microsoft values to help build an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript TypeScript or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript TypeScript or Python
- OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript TypeScript or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience building production systems with large language models such as AI agents multi-agent orchestration tool calling planning context management or code-understanding systems.
- Experience building or working on security scanners static analysis (SAST) dynamic analysis (DAST) software composition analysis (SCA) compilers or other program analysis tools.
- Working knowledge of vulnerability classes such as memory safety injection authentication and authorization deserialization path traversal SSRF and business-logic flaws.
- Experience with program analysis techniques such as taint analysis data-flow and control-flow analysis code property graphs fuzzing or symbolic execution.
- Experience building distributed high-scale cloud services on Azure including containerized or sandboxed execution.
- Familiarity with multiple software ecosystems and build systems across C/C C# Java JavaScript/TypeScript Python and cloud-native applications.
- A passion for developer experience and for building tools that engineers trust and act on.
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119800 - $234700 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 $160200 - $261000 per year.
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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.
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