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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.

We are called the "Identity Protection" team, and our mission is to protect and secure Identities for our customers at scale. We are a team of engineers who are mission-driven go-getters, and we dive deep into the trenches to solve some of the world's most challenging problems. We process several billions of signals every day across millions of tenants comprising of petabytes of data and serve insights out of them, that are leveraged by various teams to power their protection scenarios. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will play a critical role in realizing our vision of building a highly reliable data and ML platform that enables protecting the identities of users, applications, and devices alike from being compromised or abused. The ideal candidate for this role is one who is hands on with technical design and implementation as well as one who will mentor & guide our team of engineers to build this system, in order to protect the most important element in the cyber security landscape - the identity.

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 a seasoned engineer, who is deeply technical, and has experience building and scaling distributed services and data platforms. Some of the core responsibilities include:

• Design, build and maintain large scale data platforms that are consistent and reliable.

• Deeply understand the signals and the ongoing threats and compromises and design systemic solutions to provide real time identity protection.

• Collaborate across multiple teams and services transcending organizational boundaries within Microsoft to integrate protection scenarios and provide a holistic customer experience.

• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews.

• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.

• 4+ years of experience developing large scale distributed systems.

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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience coding with Python and/or Scala.

• Experience building large scale data platforms and/or analytical systems.

• Experience building scalable, efficient, and reliable cloud services.

• Experience working across teams with multiple stakeholders.

• Experience with Spark and/or Synapse preferred.

• Hands on experience operating business critical distributed services, live site operations, and debugging production services.

• Experience creating platforms for data pipelines, large-scale event processors etc.

• Experience working with Azure ML or a comparable ML platform preferred.

• Deep understanding of with machine learning concepts and experience in implementing systems utilizing those.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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 17, 2025.

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