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.

Are you passionate about building cutting-edge technology to address critical security challenges in today's digital landscape? Do you want to be part of a greenfield project to build a scalable, high-performance data platform for security data? Join us at Microsoft Security and contribute to a mission that empowers users, customers, and developers with innovative solutions to secure digital technology platforms, devices, and multi-cloud environments.

At Microsoft Security, we are committed to making the world a safer place by developing an end-to-end security cloud that simplifies and strengthens our customers' security postures. With ever-increasing threats, regulatory requirements, and estate complexity, organizations face daunting challenges managing and securing vast amounts of data across on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments.

Our team is building a high-scale, exabyte-scale data platform to help enterprises: Inventory and map their entire digital estate: From devices and users to permissions, data systems, and virtual machines, we help organizations discover and gain visibility into every asset. Integrate and normalize data: By pre-integrating security data from disparate sources and standardizing it, we empower customers to store, retain, and use security logs more efficiently and affordably.

Answer critical security and governance questions: From identifying what systems exist and what's in them, to ensuring compliance with legal and corporate policies, we provide customers with insights and control over their security landscape. By leveraging an advanced security graph, built using AI and machine learning algorithms, we enable organizations to detect patterns, uncover threats, and make informed decisions about their digital estate's security posture in real time.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and deploying this exabyte-scale platform that can process data across billions of streams, files, tables, and reports. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a highly collaborative environment, delivering a solution that makes security management accessible and actionable for organizations of all sizes.

Responsibilities

• Building and operating cloud services
• Developing data ingestion and processing features
• Writing reliable, testable code
• Troubleshooting production issues
• Learning distributed systems, Azure, and security engineering

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, Rust, 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 developing, debugging, and maintaining software applications or services.
• Understanding of software engineering fundamentals including algorithms, data structures, object-oriented design, and testing.
• Ability to work effectively within a collaborative engineering team.
• Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical skills.

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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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