Overview
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Are you insatiably curious and do you lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from them? Are you passionate about cybersecurity? If so, we are looking for you. The Microsoft Security organization’s mission is to make the world a safer place by helping customers strengthen their security posture through Security Solutions. The Solution Engineer team engages directly with customers to contribute to their success and helps customers modernize their security architecture and posture using Microsoft technologies.
As a Security Solution Engineer (SE), you will play a pivotal role in driving security across every stage of the development lifecycle. You’ll guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, influence technical decisions, and accelerate AI applications and agents into their development workflows. You’ll help customers improve their security, modernize their applications leveraging AI, and realize the full value of Microsoft’s platform.
Responsibilities
- Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments.
- Lead hands-on engagements—hackathons, code-with sessions, and architecture workshops—to accelerate adoption of Microsoft’s developer tools and cloud platforms.
- Build trusted relationships with developers and platform leads, co-designing secure, scalable architectures and solutions.
- Resolve technical blockers and objections, collaborating with engineering to share insights and improve products.
- Maintain deep technical understanding of cloud security architectures, solutions/technologies including Microsoft M365 Defender, Defender for Cloud and Sentinel.
- Develop strategies and recommendations to improve the client’s security posture, shape technical win plans, and tailor Microsoft messaging to security opportunities. Enhance team capabilities for extended detection and response (XDR), zero trust, and cloud security and develop differentiated competitive strategies for Microsoft Security for assigned customers.
- Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in developer communities and customer forums.
Qualifications
- Required/minimum qualifications: Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience or equivalent experience.
- Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.
- Experience designing and implementing Information Security, Privacy and Information Governance solutions leveraging Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, Priva and Microsoft Purview offerings or other Security and Governance platforms.
- Working knowledge of integrating security principles into the DevOps lifecycle in an enterprise environment, and knowledge of Zero Trust principles, threat modeling, and posture management.
- Experience with Microsoft security solutions (M365 Defender, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel) or related technologies (e.g., Prisma Cloud, CrowdStrike, Proofpoint, Splunk).
- Work experience with security solutions across the Security Development Lifecycle and DevOps integration in an enterprise environment.
- Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).
- Other Requirements: Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the job duties.
- Additional or Preferred Qualifications: 6+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery experience; 4+ years cloud/hybrid/on-premises infrastructure experience; and additional related certifications.
Compensation
Security Solution Engineer IC3 – the typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,100 - $169,800 per year. There are location-based adjustments; e.g., in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area, the range is USD $112,000 - $185,300 per year.
Security Solution Engineer IC4 – the typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. In certain locations (San Francisco Bay Area / NYC metro), the range is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.
Some roles may be eligible for benefits and additional compensation. For more information, see the US corporate pay information and Microsoft Careers pages.
Legal and Employment Information
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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