Sr Software Engineer

The Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (#MDE) team is expanding and looking for new talent. We focus on safeguarding Microsoft customers from cyber threats while providing advanced data security tools. Our agile development environment emphasizes data collection and analysis to tackle evolving threats. Our mission is to deliver proactive protection, insights on emerging trends, and foster valuable partnerships. We strive to outpace malicious actors and anticipate future threats. By collaborating with partners across Microsoft, we develop innovative methods for threat detection and understanding attacker techniques.

Our diverse team includes Software Engineers, Program Managers, Data Scientists, and Security Researchers, who build distributed systems and large-scale cloud services. Our cloud solutions leverage Big Data and the latest AI and machine learning advancements in cybersecurity. Key products include the leading Anti-Virus solution, Microsoft Defender, integrated into Windows, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for enterprise clients. We are dedicated to our customers' success, which drives our motivation. Our team values diversity in backgrounds and experiences, fostering innovative solutions through collaboration. We prioritize learning and maintain a culture centered on teamwork and customer focus.

We are currently looking for a Senior Software Engineer with deep problem-solving skills, a passion for learning, and a commitment to making meaningful contributions. We appreciate individuals who produce high-quality work and bring innovative ideas to our security initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Reviews the code of a product to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft's quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution area.
• Applies feedback to current and future iterations.
• Participates in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed. Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability when reviewing code, and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered.
• Independently creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality solutions and defines success for the outcomes of tests (e.g., unit tests).
• Identifies needs for a broad versus selected approach in testing mechanisms and makes informed decisions to implement the most effective tests.
• Drives efforts to continually integrate automation features when planning for testing.
• Drives efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility.
• Creates and assures the presence of visible evidence to demonstrate compliance for products.
• Develops and maintains a deep understanding of the implications of onboarding new technologies following expectations of compliance at Microsoft.
• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Leverages a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. Ensures appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value are incorporated.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Responds within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications:

• 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 C++, C#, Java OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of industry experience building, designing, managing and delivering highly available, large-scale: cloud services and/or distributed systems / services on a cloud platform.
• 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes.

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.

• Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience with Kubernetes.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 28, 2025

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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