Senior Software Engineer

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.

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

• Work with the Product and Engineering team members to design and develop large scale distributed networking security software services and solutions. 
• Leverage AI to build advanced security capabilities and boost engineering productivity.   
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews.  
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions. 
• 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.  
• Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.  
• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.  
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.  
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.  
• Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site

Qualifications

Qualifications - Required:

Required/Minimum Qualifications: Bachelors 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++, Golang, or Rust. OR equivalent experience. 3+ years of familiarity with core networking protocols and technologies (HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP, DNS. etc.). 6+ years of experience with Windows based operating systems internals and open-source contributions.

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.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year.