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.

Our flagship product, Copilot for Security, is the first generative AI product that empowers security and IT teams to protect at the speed and scale of the AI, while remaining compliant to responsible AI principles. As pioneers in the field, we are committed to addressing the evolving challenges and opportunities within the realm of cybersecurity. We are a diverse team, very welcoming, highly collaborative and a place where you can bring your authentic self. From lively and passionate hallway conversations about a design to game days we know how to have fun! As a fast growing business we are currently looking for experienced software engineers who are passionate about building and constantly improving large scale services.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer on the Copilot for Security team, who will be working with product managers and other engineers to develop and enhance the services needed for Security Copilot. We constantly strive towards creating world class services by improving our reliability, COGS, monitoring and alerting, self-healing and ease of deployments.

We are hiring accross levels for multiple positions.

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, or Python etc.

  • OR equivalent experience.

• Experience in building, shipping and maintaining cloud services on Azure, AWS, Google Cloud or similar
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.
• Required problem solving, system design and effective communication skills.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with utilizing storage systems (NoSQL databases) like MySQL, Mongo, CosmosDb, DynamoDB etc. 
• Understanding of first party and third party security products and services is a plus

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.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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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Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Design and development of highly reliable, scalable, efficient, compliant and maintainable services
• Own components but also end to end scenarios
• Adding and optimizing monitoring coverage, including self-healing for services you own
• Partner with internal partner teams to ensure we provide seamless experiences
• Participating in the code reviews and design discussions of other engineers
• Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, service integration and geo-expansion, software performance analysis and system tuning.
• Conduct periodic on call duties and drive changes back to the services based on the live site incidents.