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.
Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking a cloud-enabled world. We are hiring (Job Title) for (team/role details etc). For example: We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to build a next generation security data platform and partner with several teams in Microsoft Security and Azure organization to make architectural decisions in an ambiguous space. 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. Companies collectively own Exabytes of data across hundreds of billions of streams, files, tables, reports, spreadsheets, virutal machines, Notebooks,and so on.Yet customers can’t answer basic questions likewhat data do they have. What’s in that data? Can they trust the data assets enough to build their business on them? Are the Data Assets being used in ways that comply with both legal and corporate policies?
We are looking for a motivated, skilled, and innovative Principal Software Architect with experience building and operating large-scale data systems to help us imagine and build our platform with a keen eye toward developer experiences. As an architect, you will have the opportunity to work across many engineering teams and design and influence service architecture across the broad platform. If the idea of working on one of the biggest Security data platforms in the world and knowing that your work impacts people everywhere, this could be the role for you! Our team values different perspectives and makes sure all voices are heard. Healthy work life balance is important to us, and we are a team that works hard but also have fun. We seek engineers who are interested in building complete, production-quality software services, with scalable and sustainable architecture and implementation, with high performance over large data sets, and with low latency and high availability.
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.
Qualifications:
Required Quarlifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.
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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ experience designing highly available large scale web services and distributed systems
- Demonstrated history of engineering and product expertise.Several years of experience building software for customers, using both Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies
- Experience in pursuing and delivering innovative insights that translate to value generation
- Abilityto navigate thecompany andto influence and inspire peers in engineering and in broad product development
- Able to pursue breakthrough thinking by assessing established and emerging through leadership
- Understanding and appreciation for software architecture, usability, and design
Software Engineering IC6 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $158,500 – $276,600 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 $202,800 – $304,200 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 is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
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Responsibilities:
- Architect, design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions in collaboration with teammates.
- Design services with focus on high availability and scalability, robustness, and observability.
- Build software prototypes and conduct experiments to evaluate alternative architectures.
- Take end-to-end responsibility for the development, observability, quality, testing, and production readiness of the services you build.
- Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through code and design reviews, and by using data/telemetry to make decisions.
- Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are: well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, reusable, diagnosable, and actively monitored.
- Experience in working with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, ability to design componentscarefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability.
- Gain an understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users & customers.
- Stay educated on existing and state of the art technologies, and do POCs to evaluate technology fits for customer needs.
- Grow and mentor developers.