Senior Software Engineer

As modern enterprise shifts to the cloud, security is paramount. Microsoft Defender for Cloud Applications is a security solution that empowers security admins to manage and secure their organization's data and applications in the cloud.Our team focuses on discovering and securing cloud applications used by enterprises, ensuring comprehensive protection across a wide variety of SaaS applications and their app ecosystems.

We build and continuously deploy an always-on, globally distributed service, which examines real-time network traffic and application audit logs at scale and applies the necessary security measures to protect enterprise users and their data.

Our team is composed of individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and we are committed to maintaining and growing this diversity. We believe in learning on the job, collaborating with other teams, and being customer-obsessed.

We are looking for Senior Software Engineers. If you are passionate about understanding networking and web app technologies towards serving customer needs, if you are excited about large scale distributed systems and evolving system architectures and eager to explore, learn, innovate (from failures too) and help shape the future of SaaS security, we would love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and adapt AI solutions to add customer value to the product.
• Drive technical clarity in development and implementation.
• Take features from ideation to successful global rollout.
• Remove obstacles to ensure end-to-end project success.
• Contribute to the design of large-scale, distributed software services and solutions.
• Write clean, well-tested code.
• Drive improvements in team software engineering practices.
• Establish best practices and uphold high standards in online services development, including code reviews, automated testing, DevOps methodologies, and accelerated development with Git Copilot.
• Mentor and grow other engineers to improve efficiency and productivity.
• Build automation to prevent and remediate service problems.
• Perform OnCall duties diligently, address live site issues with ease, and enhance OnCall operations.
• Be passionate about technology and customer-focused in all your work.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or related field or equivalent experience in building, shipping, and operating reliable, distributed software systems. 8+ years of software engineering experience building and maintaining large-scale cloud applications.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to learn concepts and new technologies quickly
• Great problem-solving skills and drive for results.
• Commitment to collaboration and teamwork and ability to deliver via influence.
• Self-starter, who proactively identifies problems and drives for resolution.
• Experience with distributed cloud service development, and with big-data systems such as Spark, Cloud storage systems, Data lake, Azure Data explorer is a plus .Background in cyber security and distributed cloud-based applications.
• Ideal candidate will be who has handled team in the past.Advanced technical degree (MS/PhD) is a plus
• Master's Degree or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Proven track record of stakeholder management, and executing multi-year projects with strong collaboration across different organizations and disciplines
  
  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.