Principal Software Engineer, Streaming Security Platform

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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.

Security is a topic you read about every day, and securing the Cloud is more important than ever. Business and governments are under constant threat from a variety of actors, and they are moving to the Cloud in record numbers. We protect Microsoft’s customers and their data across the world and secure all Microsoft Clouds. In the mobile-first cloud-first world, security is among the most important elements to get right, it enables trust and keeps people, organizations, and their data safe.

We are the Cloud Security group, and we build services that process TBs of data every day to detect software and network related vulnerabilities, across millions of nodes and endpoints. We are looking for an experienced software engineer to secure cloud native workloads such as containers, Azure Functions and more. We do this by designing and delivering industry-leading features that delight customers.

Core to our team culture is the belief that to run at internet scale, you must have a ‘people-first’ approach. That means we put emphasis on forging an inclusive team culture. Our aim is to be the best and most successful security organization in the world and have fun while doing so.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.
• 2+ years of experience with real time streaming platforms using technologies including, but not limited to, Apache Flink, Spark Structured Streaming

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:

• 4+ years of experience working with a public cloud provider

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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 March 19, 2025.

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• Work in a dynamic environment with frameworks such as Kubernetes and Microsoft Service Fabric.
• Work closely with PMs to translate their asks into scalable yet easy to maintain services.
• Collaborate with your peers to design and build highly available services, from alpha/preview releases to production grade.
• Lead by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leads efforts and discussions for the architecture of aspects of products/solutions (e.g., design, cost).
• Applies, extrapolates, and identifies best practices and shares information with other engineers to reliably build code that is based on well-established methods while also applying best practices for new code development.
• Leads efforts to identify key partners and maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers.
• Partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.