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.

Are you eager to enhance Microsoft’s customer data security? Do you enjoy working with diverse and talented teams to deliver secure products? If you thrive in a supportive environment focused on global impact, we want you on our team!

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our M365 Security engineering team. In this role, you will design, develop, test and maintain world-class, scalable, and reliable cloud services that are built to continually enhance and support the privacy and security posture of M365 code bases, while also creating innovative solutions to help our products protect against common patterns that lead to data leaks. You'll also be able to leverage AI and build Copilot technologies to stay ahead, enhancing our ability to innovate and protect.

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.

Required/Minimum 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. 

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

Preferred Qualification: 

•  Experience or knowledge of detection tooling or static analysis, and associated metrics for measuring success
• Experience with utilizing Large Language Models and Prompt Engineering
  
• 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C# or Java OR equivalent experience
•  2+ years of experience building scalable, efficient, and reliable cloud services.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $108,100 - CAD $199,700 per year.

Find additional pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

 Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 31, 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.

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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• Identify and prevent privacy-brittle software patterns, cross-tenant data leaks, and privacy failures in M365 codebases and services.
• Extend and innovate on a patented cloud-hosted serverless service that detects privacy brittle patterns and informs customers of risks.
• Improve application privacy maturity at scale by designing, implementing, and building scalable and automated solutions.
• Building prototypes and proof-of-concept code, working alongside the engineering teams to provide advice on privacy focused design and implementation.
• Build strong relationships with product and security teams within M365, providing recommendations to strengthen the development process and improve Microsoft Data Privacy competency.
• Research new and emerging technologies, assessing their privacy risks and benefits.
• Collaborate with teams to perform and validate root cause analysis of failures, automate prevention, and identify common causes.

• Embody our culture and values