Software Engineer II

Are you interested in working for one of the most exciting and fast-growing teams in Microsoft? Then look at the Microsoft Security Engineering team. You will be building cloud solutions in order to meet scales that few companies in the industry are required to support. Leveraging state of the art technologies, you will be instrumental in delivering holistic protection to a user base of tens of thousands of government organizations, enterprises, and SMB businesses around the globe. The Microsoft Protection & SOC team is responsible for delivering a constantly evolving set of services and solutions to meet the challenging landscape of our ever-evolving attackers.

This is a Research Efficiency Platform team which provides leadership, direction, and accountability for Security Researchers tools and platforms, CICD, AI/ML, Virtualization and infrastructure, and secured development standards. You will help conduct business reviews and operate our production services. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services and systems are highly stable, performant, and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to help us code and build large scale platforms, cloud services and engineering systems. You will work in collaboration with other Engineers, Researchers, Data Scientists and Architects to continue to learn and build your skill sets on how to innovate the design approach of said pipelines and services.

Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer, you would be responsible for:

• Design, develop, validate and implement the next generation of platform infrastructure that is highly secure, performant, resilient, modular, meets reliability targets, includes observability, and that enables next gen experiences.
• Take up end-to-end ownership of deliverables and produce viable solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable backend infrastructure services that deliver delightful customer experiences.
• Focus on building innovative user experiences and automating manual processes.
• Ensure the security, scalability, reliability, and performance of services in production.
• Actively participate in code and design reviews to maintain high-quality code and solutions.
• Write and maintain unit tests and automated integration tests
• Responding to and mitigating any live site issues impacting customers
  
  

Qualifications

Qualifications Required –

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, SQL, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Support a 24x7 live site support model for the services the team owns.
  

Qualifications: Other Requirements –

Preferred Experiences And Technologies

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Azure Cloud, DevOps and GitHub tooling
• Hands-on scripting knowledge in PowerShell
• Platform development experience for production environments
• Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Lake, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Batch, HDI, Spark, Azure Synapse
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Software Engineers, Program Managers, Security Researchers, and Data Scientists
• Development experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure
  
  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.