Senior Security Developer

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. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) tracks nation state and criminal actors to protect Microsoft and Microsoft's customers. The actors we track are often highly technical and maintain good operational security. Tracking actors like this requires persistence and ingenuity and is done by combining the work of intelligence analysts, reverse engineers, developers and data scientists. MSTIC provides unique insight on threats and is responsible for delivering timely and actionable threat intelligence across our products and services. Within MSTIC, Signals Engineering’s mission is to enhance research, detection and protection against threats to Microsoft & customers by codifying MSTIC’s analytical expertise at-scale, generating signals to extend our global threat coverage and advanced collaboration with Microsoft product, research and defender teams.

We are looking for an innovative Senior Software Engineer who understands the threat landscape and can translate security insights from our analysts into real-world code processing a range of threat intelligence-related signals. We are a fast-paced team with talented engineers.

In this role, you will gather requirements, lead the design and implementation of systems and services responsible for secure and efficient data sharing at scale. You will work closely with analysts and other security researchers to deliver intelligence-focused solutions providing additional data, artefacts, and analysis to enable our adversary pursuit mission.

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.

• Experience with skills in a mix of C/C++, C# and scripting languages (Python/PowerShell/JavaScript) OR equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of cloud development using Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Proficient with data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
• Experience with DevOps tools and practices, such as Git, CI/CD, testing, and monitoring.
• Proven experience solving and decomposing complex problems, driving technical designs, implementing, validating, and delivering features to production.
• Curiosity and passion for problem solving; ability to learn new skills quickly and apply them to real world problems

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field 
• Knowledge of post-breach compromise domain – including methods for reconnaissance, persistence, lateral movement and data exfiltration across both on-premises and cloud environments.
• Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern distributed software design patterns and cloud systems architecture, including microservices, containers, load-balancing, queuing, caching.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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• Accelerate our analysts’ insights by building innovative analysis tooling running at cloud scale.
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
• Provide technical leadership across features, projects and tools
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of our services while also sharing knowledge with other engineers
• Work across multiple teams in Microsoft, create clarity, decompose complex problems in smaller manageable workstreams, and harness the energy of the team to solve them.