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Principal Security Engineer at Microsoft

Department: Software Engineering

Compensation · Listed in posting

$142,800 – $274,800/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
Redmond, Washington · Mountain View, California · +3
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Microsoft is hiring a Principal Security Engineer for its Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure organization to design secure silicon, firmware, bootloaders, embedded kernels, and hardware accelerators across the product development lifecycle. The role covers secure boot, key management, attestation, cryptographic services, firmware debugging, and trusted-computing compliance, with collaboration across hardware, software, and security teams. Candidates need a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and at least six years of technical engineering experience; the role requires Microsoft Cloud background screening and offers a U.S. base pay range of USD 142,800 to USD 274,800 per year.

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