Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Overview
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 the Central Fraud and Abuse Risk (CFAR) team powered by innovation and risk intelligence. We leverage security and compliance domain expertise, troves of labeled data, and talented engineers to deliver resilient services that set the standard for the industry. We build, buy, and integrate the best available technologies and datasets to deliver a flexible, scalable platform that amplifies both automated and human decision-making. Our team embraces collaboration and the understanding that experimentation (failing fast) drives innovation. In our daily work, we demonstrate growth mindset, respect, accountability, connectedness, integrity, and agility. We are a diverse and inclusive group of individuals with big hearts, small egos, and a drive to protect others through technology.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience designing and building highly secure, highly available, resilient, containerized cloud-hosted microservices and micro frontends. You want to build best-in-class solutions using robust coding practices and the latest tech. You have passion and desire to work under an Agile DevSecOps culture and you enjoy the rhythm of a fast-paced startup environment. You relish the opportunity to create world-impacting solutions that most people wouldn't believe are possible, and yet you also feel motivated when contributing in small ways. If this sounds like you, and you buy into our team's values, then come help us build a foundation of trust for our world's digital future.
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.
Qualifications
Required 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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of experience building scalable, efficient, and reliable cloud services.
- 4+ years experience with systems design, architecture, and writing unit tests and integration/ end to end tests
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 Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred qualifications:
- 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 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 equivalent experience.
- Experience with utilizing Large Language Models and Prompt Engineering.
- Experience buiding AI agents
- Experience working with cloud computing platforms like Azure, AWS.
- Experience in container ecosystems, including Kubernetes, docker, service mesh etc.
- Understanding of code coverage, data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded, asynchronous programming patterns and solving complex problems, inclination for architecting at scale.
- Proficiency in Agile software delivery utilizing GitHub and/or Azure DevOps Service.
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 June 12, 2025.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship the next generation of highly scalable, cloud native applications and large scale distributed microservices while mentoring other team members.
- Ensure the highest standards of security and quality in all aspects of our work, from design to deployment.
- Bring software engineering habits and produce high quality code that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
- Collaborate with colleagues including product owners, UX designers, AI/ML Engineers/Researchers, data scientists and other engineers to create delightful and meaningful experiences for our customers.
- Evangelize and/or propose new ideas while ‘bringing others along” with communications.
- Demonstrate a sense of pride, ownership, and personal accountability for the end-to-end product.