Senior Software Engineer - Windows Security Partner Enablement

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Customers face a wide variety of threats in their digital life and depend on solutions from Microsoft and our ecosystem partners to help keep them safe. On the Windows Ecosystem Enablement (WE2) team, our approach involves Windows platform security protections as well as deep collaboration with an ecosystem of ISV partners that provide value-added security software and services for our mutual customers.

As a Senior Software Engineering, you will work directly with industry-leading security partners to define and adopt the newly announced Windows endpoint security platform. This new framework is central to our vision of a more resilient security ecosystem, enabling partners to deliver effective, performant security solutions. You will also work with multiple internal engineering teams to help shape the evolution of the platform based on real-world partner scenarios and needs.

This is a hands-on engineering role with a unique opportunity to influence how security solutions are built and deployed across the Windows ecosystem -- empowering our partners and protecting over a billion customers worldwide.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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# or Rust.
  • 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# or Rust.
  • OR equivalent experience.

• 6+ years of Industry developer experience building, debugging, and troubleshooting native Windows applications with C# and/or C++.

• 4+ years experience with Windows operating system, security and application development.

• 4+ years experience in a Software Engineering role demonstrating cross group collaboration, effective written and oral communication and driving multiple simultaneous projects with high attention to detail.

• Experience collaborating with external engineering partners to design, build, or integrate technical solutions. This includes working across organizational boundaries to align architecture, drive joint development efforts, troubleshoot complex issues, and ensure successful delivery of shared goals.

• Hands-on experience with PowerShell, Azure SQL, and/or Microsoft Fabric to develop and maintain infrastructure and internal engineering tools that support partner integration, testing, and enablement work.

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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to determine partner requirements for a scenario. Contribute to long term technical strategy and direction for the platform.

• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.

• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.