Software Engineering

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

About The Position

The Cloud & AI 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 is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. 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. We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Endpoint Security Team to develop and maintain security services to ensure that our endpoints are protected in the right way. Our solutions are focused on enabling and detecting software vulnerabilities using telemetry from multiple sources and identifying opportunities to minimize or prevent security risks. The candidate will be building solutions to enhance our Device Health policies at enterprise scale. Successful candidates will have in-depth technical experience with Software Vulnerabilities and vulnerability scanning solutions. They should be able to combine their technical skills with enthusiasm, ingenuity, results-orientation, and ability in working with the rest of the team. A proficient candidate will have experience in a team environment, experience running enterprise scale services and platforms, technical depth in cloud platforms, agile development practices, and experience in designing & tuning telemetry. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
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.

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ 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 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Lead technical design and architecture discussions for core Endpoint Security services
Collaborate with Microsoft Product Groups to define and prioritize project backlogs
Responsible for all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle.
Software Development: Design, develop, deploy, and maintain distributed systems software components, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance Write high-quality, maintainable code, and review contributions from engineers
Adhere to modern engineering practices, enacting change to services through software engineering, unit testing, debugging, refactoring, code reviews and maintaining build/deployment pipelines.
Identify opportunities and drive the implementation of automation to improve service health, manageability, reliability, and telemetry.
Own, triage, investigate and resolve service issues with an emphasis on broad communication, learning & teaching throughout the process.
Author functional and technical documentation. Communicate on a deep technical level with product engineering, project management and operations teams to improve. and optimize products, improve infrastructure, and evolve services.
Translate business requirements into technical specifications and help manage priorities, deliverables, and timelines.
Embody our culture and values