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.

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.Our teams build the cloud platforms and data services that power Microsoft Security, helping customers protect complex environments and turn security data into actionable insights.

Our work spans scalable distributed services, platform infrastructure, and large-scale data processing, alongside graph-based capabilities. We partner with product managers, security researchers, and engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable, and performant capabilities, with a strong focus on customer needs and the health of our production services.We are looking for a Software Engineer who is curious, collaborative, and motivated by challenging technical problems and customer impact.

With guidance from experienced engineers, you will design, build, test, and support well-defined features in cloud services, data pipelines, or platform tooling. You will gain hands-on experience with distributed systems, secure development, and live-site operations while strengthening your engineering judgment through feedback and code reviews.

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

Designs and implements well-defined components of cloud services and platform tooling, with guidance from experienced engineers, to deliver scalable and reliable security capabilities for customers.

Builds data-processing pipelines and service integrations that enables reliable processing and exchanges of security data across products, services, and customer scenarios.

Collaborates with product managers, security researchers, and partner engineers to understand requirements, test ideas, and uses feedback to turn customer needs and research insights into production capabilities.

Writes clean, maintainable, well-tested code using secure development practices, with attention to error handling, data correctness, privacy, and tenant isolation.

Uses telemetry and debugging tools to investigate production issues and improve reliability, performance, and resource efficiency, while learning safe deployment and live-site practices.

Participates in design and code reviews, communicates progress and blockers, and improves development, testing, and deployment workflows through feedback and automation.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's 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.

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 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Rust, or Python.

OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Rust, or Python.

OR equivalent experience.

Experience building, testing, and debugging backend services or data-processing pipelines using technologies such as C#, Java, or Python.

Familiarity with data structures and algorithms, and exposure to distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, databases, or graph processing.

Experience using AI-assisted development tools, such as GitHub Copilot or Claude, for coding, testing, or debugging, while reviewing and validating AI-generated output and following data-handling policies.

Familiarity with cybersecurity concepts, such as identities, permissions, vulnerabilities, or attack paths, and an interest in building secure services that address customer needs.

Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,400 - $168,100 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 $111,100 - $183,700 per year.

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

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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