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. 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.

The Security Platform team’s mission is to building cloud solutions to support premium features that provide security, compliance, data governance, data loss prevention, and more, in a fully integrated manner from services to clients of Office 365 as well as Windows. We create global scale services to transport, store, secure and manage some of the most sensitive data on the planet and build our services on top of Azure, Exchange and other cloud platforms, and our experiences in Office applications like Outlook. The IDC arm of the team is expanding substantially and is looking for talented and highly motivated engineers. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone who has, or wants to build, expertise in cloud distributed systems, or in security and compliance, or both.  The team will be building cloud solutions meeting scales that few companies in the industry are required to support, that leverage state of the art technologies to deliver holistic protection to a planet scale user base. Office 365 is the industry leader in hosted productivity suites and boasts of being the fastest growing business at Microsoft with more than 100 million seats hosted in multiple data centers across the globe. The Security Platform team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, cloud design, infrastructures development and end to end implementation. You will independently determine and develop architectural approaches and Infrastructure solutions, conduct business reviews, and operate our production services. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users.  We are looking for someone who is a highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast paced, highly technical environment, has a strong customer focus and understands the importance of Live Site, has a demonstrated ability to establish and manage relationships across organizational boundaries, has proven experience dealing with large scale data architecture, operational architecture and or network Architecture and proven experience creating distributed systems tools of moderate-to-high complexity. 

You will be responsible to perform investigations and investments in complex areas; designing and delivering features end to end - including system architecture, code, deployment, scale, performance and quality, from conception to delivery. 

• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions 
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.  
• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.  
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.  
• Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for LiveSite.   
• Adhere to modern engineering practices, effective coding, writing unit test cases, debugging, code reviewing and creating CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipelines.
• Work across geographic and organizational boundaries to define requirements, scope work, develop features, integrate functionality, and meet key performance goals.
• Own and drive projects with large scope and complicated features by working toward self-defined goals and milestones.
• Have a sense of pride, commitment, and personal accountability for the service quality, completeness and resulting user experience for the life of the product or service .
  
  

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

6+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices.

6+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP, or comparable cloud environments, with production ownership and CI/CD pipeline integration.

6+ years of experience applying distributed systems concepts such as concurrency, conflict resolution, and consensus algorithms to build resilient and maintainable back-end architectures.

6+ years of experience building systems with emphasis on reliability, durability, and operational efficiency, including experience with live site operations, incident response, and performance optimization.

6+ years of experience programming in modern back-end languages such as C#, Java, Go, or Python.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering (or equivalent experience) with 6+ years in software development, including proficiency in C# (Java/C++), OOP, design patterns, and multithreading.
• Strong knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases, Linux/Windows OS, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, REST API design, microservices, event-driven architecture, secure coding, CI/CD pipelines, and performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience with build/deployment pipelines, pub/sub models, asynchronous processing, mentoring junior developers, authoring design documents, and collaborating on end-to-end solutions.
• Effective communication, problem-solving, and adaptability in ambiguous situations.
  
  

Qualifications - 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.

Work on Cutting-Edge Tech: Build enterprise-scale solutions using modern cloud-native technologies like .NET Core, Kubernetes, Docker, and Azure services. Solve Complex Challenges: Tackle distributed systems, advanced security, high-performance architectures, and large-scale microservices. Make Real Impact: Contribute to mission-critical platforms powering global enterprises and protecting sensitive data. Grow Your Career: Gain deep expertise in cloud, security, and full-stack development while working in a culture of technical excellence and mentorship.

Deliver High-Quality, Scalable Solutions Build and maintain robust, cloud-native applications and services that meet enterprise-grade performance, security, and reliability standards. Drive Technical Excellence & Innovation Solve complex distributed systems challenges, implement secure coding practices, and optimize for high throughput and resilience while staying aligned with modern architecture principles. Collaborate & Lead Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions, mentor junior developers, and contribute to design documentation and best practices.

Core Development Tools Programming Languages: C# (primary), Java or C++ (secondary) Frameworks: .NET Core Design Principles: Object-Oriented Programming, Design Patterns Cloud & Infrastructure Cloud Platforms: Azure (preferred), AWS, or Google Cloud Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (with Helm) CI/CD Tools: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar Data & Storage Databases: SQL (e.g., SQL Server), NoSQL (e.g., CosmosDB) Key Management & Security: Azure Key Vault, encryption practice

6+ years in software development with strong proficiency in C# (or Java/C++) and Object-Oriented Programming.

3–4 years working on cloud-native applications (Azure preferred) and distributed systems.

2–3 years experience in containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).

2+ years in secure coding practices, encryption, and key management.

2+ years experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. Hands-on experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST API design, and microservices architecture.

Hashtags: #MSFT Security #SentinelPlatform #MSFTMicrosoftSentinelPlatform

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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