Senior Software Engineer

As more and more users continue making the leap to mobile, we empower them by building exciting end-user facing cyber security applications & services. Security is one of the fastest growing, collaborative, fun team with a startup mindset within the Microsoft Experiences and Devices organization. 

Our cloud services leverage Big Data and employ the latest advancements in AI and ML for cyber security. Key product lines built by our team include world’s leading Anti-Virus, the Microsoft Defender Antivirus (AV), and Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) products. Our products and services are foundational drivers for Microsoft 365, and are a major growth opportunity for Microsoft. 

Providing peace of mind to our customers with our mobile security solutions is what excites us every day! Our team has people from a wide variety of backgrounds, previous work histories, and life experiences, and we are eager to maintain and grow that diversity. We are passionate about learning on the job, collaborating with other teams, and being customer obsessed. 

Like us, if you are passionate about positively impacting over a billion mobile users from all walks of life, by providing peace of mind through easy to use cyber security products, come join us. 

• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Software Engineers, Program Managers, Security researchers, and Data Scientists. 
• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer working on industrial strength software and a proven track record of having shipped commercially successful software products & services. 
• 8+ years of experience in designing data structures, algorithms, highly concurrent programming, analysis of algorithm complexity. 
• Full-Stack development experience building data, logic tier and user experience software. 
• Deep knowledge of building performant, scalable, reliable, distributed services 
• Designing systems and processes for running services at scale, drive cost & operational efficiency, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) methodology and being responsible for E2E quality of the service experience 
• Expertise in C#, Java, C/C++, or equivalent programming language, HTML/JavaScript/React based user experiences, Progressive Web Apps, React-Native 
• Design REST based APIs that can be accessed securely from web and client applications. 
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills 
• Familiar with secure software development life cycle 
• Experience with software development tools such as source control systems (GIT), automated build systems, compilers, software validation systems, project tracking, and lifecycle management systems 
• Work independently, drive and manage technical and architectural dependencies. 
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science 

As a Senior Software Engineer in our team, your areas of focus will be within an end to end team to design, build, deploy and manage cloud services that will help end users stay and feel safe from cyber threats. You will work closely with Program Managers and other Security Engineering disciplines to deliver core features in the Microsoft security portal, as well as back end functionality that leads to them. You will fill a vital role in the fight against malware and see the results of your work contributing to protection of millions of customers. 

Additionally, as a self-driven technical leader, you will also be responsible for ensuring code quality, provide thought leadership in bringing innovation to our engineering practices.