Senior Software Engineer

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Date posted

May 14, 2025

Job number

1823170

Work site

Up to 50% work from home

Travel

0-25 %

Role type

Individual Contributor

Profession

Software Engineering

Discipline

Software Engineering

Employment type

Full-Time

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.

Our team is 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.

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.
• 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

As Senior Software Engineer in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, you will contribute to product growth and be responsible for (re)architecting solutions.

You will

• Drive technical clarity for the development and implementation.
• Take features from ideation to successful global roll out.
• Drive a project through to delivery removing obstacles as needed to ensure success.
• Contribute to the design of large-scale distributed software services and solutions.
• Write clean, well-tested code.
• Champion and drive improvements to team software engineering practices
• Establish best practices and hold high standards in online services development, including code reviews, automated testing, DevOps methodologies and accelerated development using git Copilot.
• Mentoring and growing other engineers to bring in efficiency and better productivity.
• Build automation to prevent and/or remediate service problems from becoming production incidents.
• Perform OnCall duties diligently, handle live site issues with ease, and improve the OnCall operations process.
• Passionate about technology and obsessed about customer needs.