Software Engineer II

1 Month ago • 2-4 Years • Cyber Security • $98,300 PA - $208,800 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Software Engineer II role within Microsoft's Sovereign Cloud Security Fundamentals team involves developing and maintaining security software and tools. Responsibilities include working with stakeholders to define user requirements, implementing efficient and reusable code, utilizing data-driven analysis, creating design documents, breaking down tasks, providing time estimates, and acting as a DRI for system monitoring. The team focuses on enhancing security predictions, automating tasks, and improving operational efficiency across cloud environments. The position requires collaboration within and across teams to build solutions, troubleshoot issues, and address customer feedback. The work directly contributes to Microsoft's mission of securing digital technology and improving global security.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's Degree in CS or related field
  • 2+ years technical engineering experience
  • Experience in proposing and driving architecture
  • Experience leveraging feedback for improvements
  • Coding proficiency (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python)
Good to have:
  • Experience in Privacy or Security domain
  • Experience in distributed systems and databases
  • Experience with large data volumes
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science

Job Details

Overview

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. Sovereign Cloud Security secures Microsoft's clouds for governments around the world through enabling best in class security solutions for our customers through foundational services.

 

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join our International Sovereign Cloud Security Fundamentals Team to develop and maintain security software and tools that ensure the reliability and performance of our security systems. Our team is dedicated to enhancing security predictions, automating routine tasks, and improving operational efficiency across various cloud environments. We are building solutions that give Microsoft the ability to succeed in an ever-changing business environment.

 

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.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ 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 experience in proposing and driving architecture for high quality solutions.
  • 2+ years of experience in leveraging feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.

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.
  • Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of United States citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid United States passport.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years  technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 
    • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years  technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience in the Privacy or Security domain.
  • Experience in distributed systems and databases.
  • Experience in working with large data volumes.

 

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 per year.
  

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

 

Responsibilities

  • Work with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for features. 
  • Implement features with efficient code that meets existing coding standards and uses established patterns, with emphasis on reusing code where it makes sense.
  • Embrace a systematic approach to analysis and data-driven learning through experimentation. Identifies dependencies, creates, and drives sign-off of design document for a feature, with oversight.
  • Break work down into smaller tasks and provide high-confidence time estimates.
  • Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
  • Collaborate within and across the team to build solutions, diagnose and resolve issues, and address customer feedback.

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