Senior Software Engineering

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 team in Microsoft Cloud Security owns cloud services and an Azure product offering that continuously discovers and maps a digital attack surface to provide an external view of an organization’s online infrastructure. Our mission is to empower security organizations to understand and defend against an ever-changing threat landscape. We execute this mission by turning the internet’s data into information and actionable truth that in-turn allows our product to enable its users to analyze, discover, and protect their digital footprint.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in designing and building products and services that process internet scale data while maintaining high availability and reliability. You will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions. Your expertience will help maintain and improve the accuracy and quality of the data that is collected to power services that help customers protect their digital footprint. You relish the opportunity to create world-impacting solutions and reimagining the future of enterprise surface management through the power of modern platforms. If this sounds like you, then come help us build a foundation of trust for our world's digital future.

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 such as , C, C++, C#, Java, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in designing, implementing and delivering large-scale, secure and resilient cloud software solutions.
• Ability to lead and mentor other engineers, driving technical excellence and fostering a collaborative team environment with ability to dive-in and learn new technologies and programming languages.

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/Desired Qualifications:

• Cloud and services experience, with Azure experience highly desirable. 
• Experience designing distributed, NRT (near real-time) or Big Data systems is highly desirable.
• Customer empathy and ability to identify customer needs, interpersonal, communication and cross group skills 
• Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.
• Experience building and operating consumer, scalable services and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Experience using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD).
• Required enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, problem solving skills and resourcefulness in a fast-paced environment.

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.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 22nd 2025.

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• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement robust and scalable software solutions using cutting-edge technologies and best practices.
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.
• Participate in architectural discussions, contribute to system design decisions, and ensure software solutions align with business requirements and technical objectives.
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans, including unit testing, integration testing, and automated testing, to ensure software quality, reliability, and performance.
• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices. Continuously explore new tools, frameworks, and methodologies to enhance software development processes and improve overall product quality.
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.