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 team will be responsible for building and maintaining the core services that form the Control Plane of Microsoft Sentinel Graph (MSG). This crucial mission supports Microsofts Security business, meeting the immense scale demands that few companies in the industry face. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies, we aim to deliver comprehensive protection to a global user base.

The MSG Foundations Control Plane Engineering team is responsible for developing and implementing control plane services that coordinate the setup & interaction between various 1P & internal components needed to onboard an end user and provide complete experience of the Modern Security Data Lake.

As a senior engineer, you will contribute to these services by designing and developing solutions that establish the platforms core functionality.

You will work in a forward-looking product as part of an agile, collaborative, and cross-discipline team.

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.
• Design and implement scalable, reliable, maintainable services 
• Demonstrate strategic understanding of the timing and rationale for design choices, within the scope of work. 
• Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code.
• 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.
• Work closely with geographically distributed team, including Product Managers and developers, to drive key improvements in backend Engineering System. 
• Experience in handling large software engineering projects, modularizing them into deliverables for the team, shepherding them to quality delivery, and working closely with engineering partners across the globe.
  
  

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or higher, equivalent industry experience.
• Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills.
• Experience in building, shipping, and operating reliable system software preferably with experience in large scale high availability distributed systems.
• Ability to write complex system level programming and debugging.
  
  

Other Requirements

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
  
  

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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.

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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