Senior Software Engineers + Software Engineer IIs

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

17h

About The Position

The Microsoft Security organization is seeking to hire Senior Software Engineers and Software Engineer IIs to join their teams. This role is crucial in addressing the critical security priorities for customers in a world facing digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. The organization aims to reshape security and empower users, customers, and developers with a comprehensive security cloud. The position contributes to Microsoft's mission of empowering every person and organization to achieve more by securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in heterogeneous customer environments, as well as ensuring internal estate security. The culture emphasizes a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and daily contributions from teams and leaders to create impactful innovations. Applicants will be considered for multiple openings across different teams within Microsoft Security.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as 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.
2+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices.
2+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP, or comparable cloud environments, with production ownership, CI/CD pipeline integration, and automated testing practices.
Experience building or integrating AI/ML-powered systems or workflows, including safe handling of model outputs, orchestration, or agent-based systems.

Responsibilities

Design and develop large-scale distributed software services and solutions.
Adhere to and drive modern software-engineering practices through design reviews.
Perform system design across well-defined interfaces and multiple components, conduct code reviews, and use data/telemetry to make decisions.
Develop best-in-class engineering by ensuring services and components are well-defined, modular, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable.
Improve test coverage, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
Weigh testability, portability, reliability, and maintainability, and know when code is ready to ship.
Collaborate with leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end customer experiences, focusing on customer/partner needs through a data-driven approach.
Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site.
Partner with product and engineering teammates to design and develop large-scale distributed software services and solutions.
Focus on customer/partner needs through a data-driven approach; troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site.