Senior Security Engineer

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $102.8k - $190.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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XBOX

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2001

🎮 Gaming

🔧 Hardware

👥 B2C

Gaming • Hardware • B2C

XBOX is Microsoft’s consumer gaming brand and platform. It designs and sells video game consoles (Xbox Series X and Series S), first- and third-party games and accessories, and operates digital services such as the Microsoft Store for games, Xbox Game Pass subscription and Xbox Cloud Gaming. Xbox also provides PC and mobile gaming access, community and support services, and integrates with Microsoft accounts and other Microsoft products.

📋 Description

• Design and operate security controls across systems, including secure configurations, identity controls, network segmentation, and logging • Build maintainable Python services, API integrations, and automation with testing, error handling, monitoring, and secure credential management • Develop AI/LLM-assisted security workflows and implement data protection, least-privilege access, and human approval for sensitive actions • Use Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tools and CI/CD pipelines to deploy repeatable, reviewable security infrastructure and detect configuration drift • Engineer and integrate firewalls, VPNs, web application firewalls, endpoint protection, vulnerability scanners, and SIEM platforms • Perform threat modeling and security design reviews, identify control gaps, and partner with service owners on remediation • Write and maintain architecture documentation, design decisions, runbooks, standard operating procedures, and operational handoff materials • Participate in engineering projects from requirements through production and review code and designs • Troubleshoot security services using logs, metrics, and network analysis; improve reliability and support an on-call rotation • Turn incidents and operational feedback into improvements through blameless postmortems, automated checks, and risk-reduction measurement • Automate firewall rule reviews, security tool configuration, vulnerability enrichment, and remediation workflows • Develop AI/LLM-assisted alert enrichment, investigation summaries, and documentation retrieval with evaluation, auditability, and human oversight • Create reusable infrastructure-as-code modules and deployment pipelines with security validation, drift detection, and rollback procedures • Improve security telemetry, service health monitoring, and operational runbooks

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of security engineering experience • Hands-on experience securing and operating Azure and GCP environments, including cloud identity, networking, logging, and workload security • Proficiency in Python, including automation or integrations that have been built, tested, deployed, and supported • Practical experience integrating AI/LLMs into tools or workflows beyond conversational use • Understanding of AI/LLM limitations, evaluation needs, and security risks • Experience with infrastructure as code, version control, code review, and CI/CD • Knowledge of least privilege, defense in depth, secure configuration, vulnerability management, encryption, and secrets management • Knowledge of network security, including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, routing, segmentation, firewalls, VPNs, web application firewalls, and intrusion detection/prevention • Experience with Terraform or equivalent, configuration management, Git, CI/CD, policy as code, and change control • Experience with threat modeling, secure design, vulnerability assessment, remediation prioritization, and system hardening • Linux, Mac, and Windows administration, troubleshooting, patching, availability, and operational recovery • Ability to communicate technical findings through architecture diagrams, design records, runbooks, procedures, knowledge transfer, and guidance for technical and nontechnical audiences • Ability to collaborate across security, IT, cloud, and development teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account • Healthcare spending accounts and dependent care spending accounts • Life and AD&D insurance • Disability insurance • 401(k) with Company match • Tuition reimbursement • Charitable donation matching • Paid holidays and vacation • Paid sick time • Floating holidays • Compassion and bereavement leaves • Parental leave • Mental health and wellbeing programs • Fitness programs • Free and discounted games • Voluntary benefits including supplemental life and disability, legal service, ID protection, and rental insurance • Relocation assistance may be available if the Company requires geographic relocation • Incentive compensation may be available; not guaranteed