Senior Software Engineer

45 Minutes ago • 4-8 Years • Cyber Security • $117,200 PA - $250,200 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Microsoft Security seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its benchmarking team. This role involves designing subsystems for a benchmarking service, collaborating with cross-team engineering and product management, delivering high-quality service features, investigating security product effectiveness, working on security reviews and automation, and providing technical leadership during code reviews. The ideal candidate will have experience with measurement test frameworks, AI in development, and debugging tools. Responsibilities include designing and implementing security features, collaborating with stakeholders, and reporting service health metrics. The team focuses on improving the core fundamentals of Microsoft's security products and aligning resources to critical features and performance gaps.
Must have:
  • 4+ years technical engineering experience
  • 1+ year experience with measurement test frameworks
  • Experience with C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • Ability to meet Microsoft security screening requirements
Good to have:
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science
  • Experience using AI to accelerate development
  • Full-stack security feature design and implementation

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.

Are you excited by the possibility to make one of the world's most crucial security systems better? Do you want to innovate quickly and improve how Microsoft measures itself and aligns resources to the most important features and performance gaps? Do you like to learn about products across the entire security ecosystem? Can you stay current with security related AI product releases?  This may be an opportunity for you. 

The security team seeks a motivated, experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our benchmarking team. We are looking for someone who can dig into hard engineering problems, develop a system to efficiently measure the core fundamentals of our products, evaluate exciting new features, and drive executive reviews at the most senior levels. 

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 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. 
  • 1+ years'experience working on measurement test frameworks  
  • 1+ years' experience using AI to accelerate all phases of development 

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:  

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ 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 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python  
    • OR equivalent experience. 

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

 

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 6, 2025.

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Responsibilities

  • Design sub-systems for a benchmarking service collaborating with cross team engineering and product management stakeholders. 
  • Deliver high quality service features that support customer requirements and closely work with stakeholders to monitor, improve and report the service health metrics to leadership team. 
  • Assist in investigation of security products effectiveness and performance against alternative solutions. 
  • Work directly on security reviews, complex automation coding and approval workflows across multiple teams. 
  • Has knowledge on debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods, and leads verification of assumptions through writing and developing code proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur across products and teams.  
  • Provides technical leadership during code reviews for a solution/product area to ensure it meets the team's and Microsoft’s quality standards 
  • Demonstrated full stack security related feature design and implementation. 
  • Embody our and  

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