Senior Software Engineer

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In Microsoft Defender for Office (MDO) team, we are responsible for delivering a cloud-based email and message filtering service that protects customers from advanced threats (malware, phish, fraud and spam) in Microsoft’s collaboration workloads (exchange, teams, sharepoint, onedrive etc). MDO provides investigation, threat hunting and remediation capabilities that allow security teams to efficiently identify, prioritize, investigate, and respond to threats.

Qualifications Required –

• Strong desire to succeed and motivate others.
• Demonstrate strong analytic and big picture capabilities in problem solving approaches.
• Deep understanding of security fundamentals
• Proven ability to execute swiftly without compromising quality.
• Versatility and willingness to work with constantly changing priorities with enthusiasm.
• Ensure appropriate and effective communication flow among internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications: Other Requirements –

• Bachelors or Masters in computer science, engineering or equivalent
• 8+ years of software development experience with C#, C++ or Java
• 5+ years of professional experience in building and managing highly scalable, secure, available and resilient Tier-0 cloud services
• Working in agile teams with strong customer focus
• Experience in Azure, Exchange, or other cloud and distributed systems
• Security or compliance experience
• ML and AI knowledge
• Depth understanding of technologies / standards in cloud services and security domain e.g. OAUTH, ODATA, open source web technologies, big data platforms etc.

Our team is seeking passionate senior software engineers to help deliver protections and experiences for Microsoft defender suite’s collaboration scenarios. In this role you will be responsible for helping design, architect, build, release and manage some of the core security solutions of M365. You will be partnering with multiple internal / external teams across the organization and across disciplines to lead the ongoing innovation, adoption, and evolution of the services. Few things expected

• Designing and delivering manageable micro services end to end
• Distributed computation, high scale, high availability, geo-redundancy, low maintenance and with provable quality
• Able to handle large scope and complicated feature ownerships by working with teams across disciplines
• Deeper understanding of security domain and being able to make appropriate trade-offs in design, implementation, and operation