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 looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer to join the Security Platform team who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast paced, highly technical environment. If you have a customer focus and understand the importance of Live Site, with a demonstrated ability to establish and manage relationships across organizational boundaries, and proven experience dealing with large scale data architecture, operational architecture and or network Architecture and proven experience creating distributed systems tools of moderate-to-high complexity, come join our team! 

The Security Platform team will be building cloud solutions meeting scales that few companies in the industry are required to support, that leverage state-of-the-art technologies to deliver holistic protection to a planet scale user base. The Security Platform team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, cloud design, infrastructures development and end to end implementation. You will independently determine and develop architectural approaches and Infrastructure solutions, conduct business reviews, and operate our production services. Collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users.

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.

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, or Python

  • OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years of professional experience building or developing large-scale distributed systems.

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 background and 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

  o 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

  o OR equivalent experience.

• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and common Design Patterns
• In-depth knowledge of cloud development (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) 
• Experience developing and shipping Azure Services is a plus
• Experience and involvement with DevOps are a plus 
• Effective Communication/collaboration skills, ability to deal with ambiguity and prioritize issues
• Collaborating with technical partners to deliver end-to-end solutions
• Experience with multithreading and asynchronous processing
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline using agile practices
• Ability to quickly ramp up on multiple technology areas

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 May 29th, 2024. 

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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You will be responsible to perform investigations and investments in complex areas; designing and delivering features end to end - including system architecture, code, deployment, scale, performance and quality, from conception to delivery. In this role you will: 

• Demonstrate strategic understanding of the timing and rationale for design choices, within the scope of work.
• Design and implement scalable, reliable, maintainable services.
• Demonstrate strategic understanding of the timing and rationale for design choices, within the scope of work.
• Consistently contribute key ideas to the product or service design and vision that meets the customer's needs
• Drive design reviews across the team and apply expertise in available technologies
• Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code
• Have a sense of pride, commitment, and personal accountability for the service quality, completeness and resulting user experience for the life of the product or service
• Work closely with geographically distributed team, including Product Managers and developers, to drive key improvements in backend Engineering System.

Other

• Embody our Culture and Values