Senior Software Engineer

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 passionate about building large-scale technology to solve some of today’s most complex security challenges? Join Microsoft Security and help build a new, high-performance data platform designed to give organizations greater visibility and control across their digital environments.

Our team is developing an exabyte-scale security data platform that processes data across billions of streams, files, tables, and reports. The platform brings together security data from across on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments, helping organizations discover and understand their digital assets, integrate and normalize data from disparate sources, and more effectively address critical security and governance needs.

Using advanced graph technologies, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, we are building capabilities that help customers identify patterns, uncover threats, understand relationships across their digital estate, and make informed security decisions at scale.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and delivering this platform from the ground up. You will tackle complex distributed systems and data challenges, work with cutting-edge technologies, and collaborate across teams to build scalable solutions that help organizations better understand and secure their digital environments.

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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Designs, develops, and delivers scalable software solutions for a high-performance data platform that processes large volumes of security data across distributed systems.
• Contributes to the architecture and technical design of services that ingest, process, normalize, store, and analyze data from diverse security data sources.
• Builds reliable and efficient distributed systems designed to operate at exabyte scale across billions of data streams, files, tables, and reports.
• Identifies opportunities to improve system performance, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Leverages a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.
• Ensures appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value are incorporated.

Required 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, 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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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, or Python
• OR 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, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience designing, building, or operating scalable distributed systems, data platforms, or large-scale cloud services.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Knowledge of security principles and challenges associated with securing large-scale, distributed systems.
• Experience developing or operating high-scale, mission-critical software-as-a-service (SaaS) products or services.
• Experience with security data, large-scale data processing, logging, telemetry, monitoring, or related data platforms.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, and distributed system design.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems and deliver reliable, high-quality software solutions.

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Pay and benefits

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.