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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
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Join the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint team as a Principal Software Engineer and help build foundational capabilities to protect the software supply chain. You will detect and prevent threats at their source by analyzing large volumes of open-source code, understanding its behavior, tracing provenance, and turning these insights into real-time protection within developer tools like GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure. Utilize languages such as C++, Java, JavaScript, Rust, Go, or Python to develop new security primitives for risk assessment, dependency detection, and AI-assisted threat prevention. Work closely with cross-functional teams to embed protections directly into existing workflows, ensuring reliable, scalable, and secure services that protect millions of developers globally. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in backend development, software supply chain security, program analysis techniques, and cloud-based data processing pipelines.
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