Senior Software Engineer - MDASH

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.

• 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 engine's 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 engine's 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.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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