Senior Software Engineer

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.

The Data Security team’s mission is to building cloud solutions to support premium features that provide security, compliance, data governance, data loss prevention, and more, in a fully integrated manner from services to clients of Office 365 as well as Windows.

We create global scale services to transport, store, secure and manage some of the most sensitive data on the planet and build our services on top of Azure, Exchange and other cloud platforms, and our experiences in Office applications like Outlook. The IDC arm of the team is expanding substantially and is looking for talented and highly motivated engineers.

This is an excellent opportunity for anyone who has, or wants to build, expertise in cloud distributed systems, or in security and compliance, or both. Team will be building cloud solutions meeting scales that few companies in the industry are required to support, that leverage state of the art technologies to deliver holistic protection to a planet scale user base.

Office 365 is the industry leader in hosted productivity suites and boasts to be the fastest growing business at Microsoft with more than 100 million seats hosted in multiple data centers across the globe. The SCIM Engineering team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, Cloud design, infrastructures development and end to end implementation. You will independently determine and develop architectural approaches and Infrastructure solutions, conduct business reviews, and operate our production services.

Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users.

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.

Responsibilities

• We are looking for someone who is a highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast paced, highly technical environment, has a strong customer focus and understands the importance of Live Site, has a demonstrated ability to establish and manage relationships across organizational boundaries, has proven experience dealing with large scale data architecture, operational architecture and or network architecture and proven experience creating distributed systems tools of moderate-to-high complexity.
• You will be responsible to perform investigations and investments in complex areas; designing and delivering features end to end - including system architecture, code, deployment, scale, performance and quality, from conception to delivery.
• Design and implement scalable, reliable, maintainable services
• Demonstrate strategic understanding of the timing and rationale for design choices, within the scope of work.
• Consistently contribute key ideas to the product or service design and vision that meets the customer's needs
• Drive design reviews across the team and apply expertise in available technologies
• Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code Have a sense of pride, commitment, and personal accountability for the service quality, completeness and resulting user experience for the life of the product or service
• Work closely with geographically distributed team, including Product Managers and developers, to drive key improvements in backend Engineering System.
• Lead the design and implementation of of robust workflows that streamline deployment and optimize the operations of Microsoft Purview solutions across specialized clouds.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, providing technical direction, reviewing code, and ensuring best practices are followed.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, security experts, and data scientists to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Optimize platform performance to handle vast amounts of data across diverse digital systems while ensuring scalability, availability, and security.
• Drive end-to-end project delivery, ensuring timely and high-quality results.
• Work on cloud-native technologies and distributed systems to build a robust, resilient, and secure platform.
• Continuously improve the platform by leveraging new technologies and best practices in security, data governance, and cloud infrastructure
• We are looking for someone who shares our passion for building great software for enterprises.
• You will work in a forward-looking product as part of an agile, collaborative, and cross-discipline team.
• As a Senior SWE, you will responsible for all aspects of a feature area including design, implementation, performance and quality. You will take such feature areas from ideation to successful global roll out.
• You will act as a code and design reviewer and mentors other engineers. You must be self-driven, proactive, and results-oriented.
  
  

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and common Design Patterns
• 6 - 8 years of relevant software development experience and proficient in C# (Java or C++)
• In-depth knowledge of cloud development (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)
• Experience developing and shipping Azure Services is a plus
• Experience and involvement with DevOps is a plus
• Effective communication/collaboration skills, ability to deal with ambiguity and prioritize issues
• Collaborating with technical partners to deliver end-to-end solutions
• Experience with multithreading and asynchronous processing
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline using agile practices
• Ability to quickly ramp up on multiple technology areas Interpersonal skills
• Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges
• Cultural sensitivity and a proven ability to work with teams and partners across multiple geographies.
• A sense of personal ownership is required, together with the ability to deliver to tight deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations
• Self-motivated and organized to deliver results Essential qualifications
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.
• Minimum of 6 years of applicable work experience
• Strong understanding of security principles and the challenges of securing large-scale systems.
• Experience working with high-scale, mission-critical SaaS products, including service operations.
  
  

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.