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Senior Software Engineer - Cloud & Security

Location
United States
Job type
Full-time
Level
Senior
Experience
7+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
29 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • C++
  • C#
  • cloud services (Azure)
  • threat modeling
  • penetration testing

Also useful

  • machine learning
  • NLP
  • search technologies
  • Entra
  • O365

Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer do you enjoy solving problems, looking at problems through a different lens, and working closely with customers to innovate new solutions to complex problems? Do you jump with excitement at the opportunity to identify trends and provide unique business solutions? Do you want to join a team where learning about a new technology or solution is part of our work every day?

Responsibilities

  • Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
  • Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  • Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
  • Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
  • Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
  • Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor and/or Graduate degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent
  • Experience: 7+ years of professional development.
  • Technical Stack: C++, C#, big data, ML, NLP, and search technologies.
  • Focus Areas: Strong analytical skills, customer engagement, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Cloud Services (Azure, Entra, O365).
  • Security awareness (penetration testing, threat analysis).
  • Drives proactive threat identification and threat modeling, builds scalable security detections, and engineer's end-to-end solutions to detect, mitigate, and prevent security risks across infrastructure and services.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

  • You should self-identify as a technical software engineer with a passion for cloud technologies and AI
  • Previous experience as a Software Developer Engineer
  • Track record of working closely with agile and diverse engineering teams
  • Understanding of cloud, AI and other computing technologies, including business drivers and emerging trends across Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies
  • Experience working in geographically dispersed teams
  • Experience identifying attack vectors and security risks, developing scalable detections, and driving engineering solutions to mitigate and prevent threats.
  • Self-starter who likes tackling new challenges and working independently
  • Ability to build relationships with senior technical and business leaders
  • Strong verbal and written communication ability including fluency in English
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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.
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