Software Engineer - Security

1 Month ago • 1 Years + • Cyber Security • $81,900 PA - $174,600 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Microsoft is seeking a Software Engineer focused on security to develop software, tools, and code for design, infrastructure, technology platforms, and applications. Responsibilities include ensuring code meets the highest security standards, collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements, implementing secure and maintainable code, and participating in testing and quality assurance. The role involves working with customer scaling requirements, applying best practices for performance and security, and adhering to Microsoft's security policies. The engineer will contribute to feature deployments, data analysis, and system monitoring, while continuously learning and applying new security technologies and best practices.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
  • Proven coding experience (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python)
  • Security interest
  • Collaboration & communication skills
  • Secure coding practices & testing
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in Computer Science
  • 1+ year technical engineering experience

Job Details

Overview

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential - and excitement for the journey ahead.

 

We’re a company of learn-it-alls rather than know-it-alls and our culture is centered around embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Does this sound like you? .

 

As a Software Engineer focused on security you will develop software, tools and code to be used in support of design, infrastructure, and technology platforms as well as commercial or end-user applications. You will help ensure the software, tools, and code meets the highest standards for security. This opportunity will allow you to create and implement secure and maintainable code for a product, service, or feature. You will partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature and consider a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. You will collaborate with others to create a clear and articulated plan for testing, assuring quality of solutions, while applying knowledge of debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively flag issues. This opportunity will allow you to learn about customer scaling requirements and the application of best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations, while ensuring the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility. You will look for opportunities to raise the security bar as you apply Microsoft’s security policies and best practices.

 

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.

 

Please note this application is only for roles based in our Redmond, Washington office and/or roles that are not tied to a specific Microsoft office location. For roles in other offices in the United States, please see our . Please note that for roles based in Redmond, relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree (or currently pursuing a degree) in Computer Science or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python,
    • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python,
    • OR Master's Degree (or currently pursuing a degree) in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python,
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Demonstrated interest in security. 

Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $81,900 - $160,200 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 $105,600 - $174,600 per year.

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

 

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

 

Responsibilities

  • Learns to review and break down work items into tasks with stakeholder collaboration, provides estimations, and escalates delays, while also supporting feature deployments to customers, considering user and service impacts, and adhering to best deployment practices for safety.
  • Collaborates with key stakeholders to define feature requirements, integrates feedback to enhance design, and establishes feedback loops for continuous improvement based on customer metrics.
  • Keeps abreast of security technologies and emerging security best practices to apply continuous secure improvements.
  • Learns and applies secure coding standards and best practices through code reviews, developing secure, maintainable, and extensible code with guidance. Utilizes debugging and security tools to proactively and reactively address issues in product features, ensuring security, code quality, and reliability.
  • Supports the identification of dependencies and designs documentation for product features, learns about system interactions and back-end dependencies, and contributes to architectural processes under guidance. Produces code to test hypotheses for technical solutions and assist with technical validation efforts. Collaborates on quality assurance plans, augments test cases, and integrates automation into testing, while understanding the implications of security and compliance in system architecture.
  • Contributes to data analysis and feedback integration for product engineering decisions, acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for monitoring and restoring system functionality within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Participates in live service operations and supports telemetry data integration for system behavior insights, with a focus on performance, reliability, and safety.
  • Develops and applies best practices for reliable and secure code building, understands global and local regulations and customer scaling requirements, and supports communication with key partners across Microsoft for user experience enhancement and partner needs.
  • Ensures compliance with security, privacy, safety, and accessibility standards, leverages developer tools for code creation and debugging, contributes to automation in production and deployment, and proactively seeks knowledge to improve product security, availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance at scale.
  • Understands and applies Microsoft’s security policies and best practices to ensure systems meet our security and trust commitments to our customers.

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