The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Microsoft is hiring a Security Engineer in Princeton, NJ.

• Role description

  We engineer high-availability platforms, and we are searching for a Security Engineer fluent in CEH to keep them humming. The appeal is layered — $105,000 - $158,000, a hybrid rhythm, technology ownership, and a Microsoft crew that backs bold calls.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
  • Contribute to sprint planning, estimation, and technology roadmap discussions
  • Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that Microsoft users feel every click
  • Carry the CISSP platform work that makes Microsoft's next NJ expansion boring
  • Read the Written Communication stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
  • Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture

  What You'll Bring

  • Prior experience working on-site in Princeton, NJ, or willingness to relocate
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • A point of view, held loosely and defended well
  • The kind of reliability that earns you the hard assignments
  • Familiarity with the rhythms of a builder-led hybrid team
  • A history of leaving technology processes better than you found them

  Everything Microsoft ships starts as a small-but-mighty argument in a Princeton conference room about how CISSP should really work. We keep the hybrid workload sustainable so your best Secure Code Review work isn't your last gasp.

  Salary opens at $105,000 - $158,000 and the perks compound: paid learning, health coverage, mentorship, and a flexible Princeton, NJ setup.

  Reopened and refreshed, the search for a mid-level candidate runs hot today.

  We're hiring, and your application could be the one we've been waiting for.

• Required skills

  • Cryptography
  • CISSP
  • Secure Code Review
  • Metasploit
  • PKI
  • SIEM
  • CEH
  • Threat Modeling
  • Azure Sentinel
  • DevSecOps
  • Customer Service
  • Written Communication
  • Empathy

• Benefits & perks

  • Nap Pods
  • Learning Stipend
  • Emergency savings program
  • Patent and innovation bonuses
  • Wellness stipend
  • Recognition and rewards platform
  • Disability accommodations

• Apply before 2026-08-30

  Submit your application for this Hybrid technology position.