Senior Software Engineer

Overview

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.

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. Microsoft Purview team is responsible for a broad suite of data governance, compliance, privacy, and risk management solutions across Microsoft 365, Azure, and multi-cloud environments.

As senior software engineer on Purview team, you will help ensure the software, tools, and code meets the highest standards for security. 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.

Responsibilities

We are looking for passionate people with experiences working with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability.

Responsibilities include

• Leads by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable code.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents.
• For areas of dependency and overlap with other teams or team members, drives coordination and communicates across teams and resolves conflicts between teams.
• Leads discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture.
• Innovation through experimentation: Initiate and guide experiments to evaluate new technologies and determine best-fit solutions.
• Develop scalable, high-quality solutions: Build software that is reliable, maintainable, and scalable to meet evolving business needs.
• Embed operational excellence: Incorporate live site readiness, monitoring, and incident response into the development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Masters/ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline.
• 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, Java or Python OR equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in backend software engineering and development.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps practices and tools, including CI/CD, deployment automation, and production operations.

Additional information

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.

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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.