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.
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 Secure Prodcution Access (SPA) organization is looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer to deliver high quality, secure services and products. The ideal candidate should have proven software development experience, ability to translate business problems into solutions while maintaining obsession and curiosity for securing our software/services, increase resilience, and improve customer experience. SPA organization owns and operates its own autonomous stack from custom application development, through identity and security products/tooling, as well as the underlying infrastructure. We also own the Secure Admin Workstation product, partnering closely with other product teams across Microsoft to continuously improve the experience while maintaining our critical security posture. We've won the coveted CSO50 award twice, for bilding & managing High-Risk Environments as well as Secure Admin Workstations, and continues to be an area of investment as we align with Microsoft’s new Security-first Initiative.
Are you obsessed with writing great software, running an enterprise Infrastructure that scales and wants to be a part of a highly motivated team that is focused on building systems that make greater impact? Do you enjoy building and implementing next generation Digital Security and Resilience solutions at scale to support enterprise level needs which empowers cross functional teams to deliver quickly? If this is you, we have a wonderful opportunity for you. This position needs a software developer with Infrasructure, operations background who is able to collaborate with domain experts, architects and senior technical & program management teams throughout the program life cycle. 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.
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.
- 2+ years of experience with Object Oriented Programming, .NET framework, ASP.NET, MVC, Web API, C#, and SQL Server Programming along with experience in cloud services (Azure/ AWS)
- 2+ years of experience building and running enterprise applications using Microsoft technology stack
- 2+ years of experience with common scripting languages like Angular JS, PowerShell etc. and exposure to TFS/VSO and Git with the ability to write secure, optimized scripts
- Willingness to participate in monthly on-call rotation within the team
Cloud Background Screening Requirement:
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.
- 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 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 equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of experience in full-stack engineering experience in a professional setting.
- 3+ years technical engineering experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems.
- Security, identity, domain experience
- Familiarity with Machine Learning and applied AI concepts.
- 5+ years software development experience in full product cycle: design, development, release, and maintenance.
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 July 22, 2025.
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Responsibilities
- Be responsible for owning multiple services, architecting them to scale, and have robust unit tests to deliver high quality products.
- Solve problems at their source, stepping back to understanding the broader context, and implementing fixes to ensure that it never occurs again.
- Stay abreast of new techniques, tools and methodologies used to address the critical developmental areas.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve applications to support the business to drive and enable security across systems.
- Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms.
- Work closely with business and engineering partners during early SDLC phases to understand the business capabilities and goals for the program.