Software Engineer Microsoft Threat Protection

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

19h

About The Position

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. Are you interested in developing cloud services that protect Microsoft and its customers from malware and phishing? The Sonar team builds scalable, robust APIs and distributed cloud solutions for content analysis across multiple platforms. Our detonation platform, relied on by services like Office 365 and Azure Sentinel, offers low-latency, accurate threat detection using dynamic analysis and machine learning. We value diversity, collaboration, and innovation, providing growth opportunities within a supportive and engaging environment. Join us to make an impact and advance your career. 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. This role is targeting an immediate start date.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience 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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 1+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience.
Reliable design, problem solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

Builds software that’s reliable, scalable, and easy to maintain.
Makes sure our services are secure, modular, monitored, and ready to perform.
Works with architects to create high-scale services and turn ideas into solutions.
Sets strong programing standards for easy integration and stability.
Writes code that’s simple to test, monitor, and deploy.
Improves monitoring and add self-healing so our systems stay strong.
Boosts test coverage and quickly solve any service issues.
Works with partners to make onboarding smooth.
Promotes top-notch engineering practices and always look to improve.
Plans for growth, tune performance, and make sure we’re ready for new challenges.
Helps with on-call shifts and use feedback from incidents to upgrade our services.