Senior Software Engineer

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.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help us build out the most ambitious and advanced static analysis solution in the world, empowering us to centrally search across all of Microsoft’s code for security vulnerabilities, malicious code, and other interesting security patterns. We are looking for someone interested in building a highly scalable, world class platform which can detect and eliminate vulnerabilities both within Microsoft’s billions of lines of code, and in the open source software of the world. This is an opportunity to do something that has never been attempted before, and it comes with its own unique and exciting challenges and opportunities. In this role you will contribute to the design and development of a platform that can proactively identify vulnerabilities across Microsoft’s products and services, research new vulnerability patterns, collaborate with Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) to rapidly assess billions of lines of code for newly reported vulnerability variants and classes. You will also have the opportunity to research new uses for static analysis, such as back door/malicious code detection and automatic generation of fuzzing test harnesses that will broaden impact and fuel other research. Whenever we can, we open source our work and you will also be empowering the broader community of CodeQL users in GitHub and at other enterprises. Our team is fortunate to regularly collaborate with the myriad of skilled security teams in the Microsoft product groups, the language experts in Microsoft’s compiler and developer tools team, the engineers directly working on the CodeQL engine in GitHub, and response and threat intel teams charged with watching the evolution of vulnerabilities in the ecosystem. This opportunity will keep you on the frontier of the software security landscape, supported by some of the leading security experts, and will help inform your requirements to build a highly scalable, proactive, analysis engine for source code.

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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Ruby or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years of experience with one or more of the following languages: C/C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, Java, Python, Go, or Ruby. Should be able to describe the common concepts of that language.
• 4+ years of software engineering experience building and maintaining large-scale cloud applications.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:  

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  • OR equivalent experience.

• Experience with big data pipelines, data lake and cloud distributed databases such as Mongo, CosmosDB
• Experience performing security code reviews – OR – experience using static analyzers would be a plus.
• Experience in security domain, general familiarity with common vulnerability patterns.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay   

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 7, 2025.

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Write clean, well-tested code
• Use best practices and hold high standards in online services development: including code reviews, automated testing, DevOps methodologies and accelerated development using git Copilot.
• Perform OnCall duties and handle live sites and incident management effectively
• Works with team members to automate and assist in driving operational excellence.
• Independently performs thorough investigations, identify opportunities for improving system quality, efficiency, robustness, security foundations and leverage findings from others to help team members with design decisions.
• Collaborates with others and contributes to others in the development of design documents for simple designs or User Stories with oversight
• Come up with clearly articulated plans for testing, assuring quality, security and rollouts with safe-deployment practices.
• Collaborates with others to create a clear and articulated plan for execution, effort estimation, and deliver features end-to-end with oversight.
• Research and implement novel uses of Static Analysis, and help shape the feature development in CodeQL
• Collaborate with other areas of subject matter expertise such as Responsible AI, Privacy, and Accessibility, to aid them in similarly empowering developers with high quality analysis for their areas.
  
• Embody our Culture and Values