Software Engineer II - Perception Red Agent Team

Overview

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.

Perception is an advanced AI platform designed to empower security and IT teams to operate at the speed and scale of AI while adhering to Microsoft’s Responsible AI principles. Within Perception, the Red Agents team builds autonomous, AI-powered offensive security agents that continuously emulate real-world adversaries.

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to lead design and delivery of secure, reliable, and safe agentic red teaming capabilities at enterprise scale. In this role, you will drive technical solutions for multi-agent systems that combine Generative AI, reasoning, memory, and planning with security domain expertise, all within strict safety, authorization, and scope guardrails.

You will partner closely with Product, Applied Science, Responsible AI, and internal red teams to convert emerging adversary tradecraft and industry frameworks into scalable, customer-ready agent capabilities. You will raise engineering excellence across architecture, service health, compliance, and security hygiene, mentor engineers, and help the team execute effectively through ambiguity to deliver trustworthy AI-driven security experiences for Microsoft’s customers.

Microsoft’s 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

• Collaborate with and guide internal and external stakeholders to determine and confirm customer/user requirements for a product or solution.
• Lead discussions and own the architecture for a product/solution; create proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and developing design specifications.
• Create a clear testing strategy to ensure product/solution quality and prevent regression in existing code.
• Identify dependencies and incorporate them into design documents for a product/solution.
• Produce extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code adhering to design specifications.