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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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As a Senior Software Engineer within the Copilot, Agents, and Platform organization, you will design and deliver production-grade services and tools that ensure products remain secure, compliant, and auditable. You will build Python and C# services to automate security assurance, evidence collection, and control validation workflows. The role involves implementing agentic coding practices, including LLM-backed workflows, tool-calling agents, and retrieval-augmented generation to accelerate development and reason over compliance data. You will integrate systems across Azure, Microsoft Graph, identity management, and CI/CD pipelines while translating regulatory requirements like SOC 2 and ISO 27001 into automated checks. Technical leadership is required through design reviews, mentoring, and establishing monitoring for AI-assisted components. This role solves the challenge of reducing manual audit hours and toil by building durable platforms that automate complex security and compliance infrastructure.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $202800 from 326 postings across 28 companies.
Develop production-grade Python and C# services to automate security assurance and compliance evidence collection.
Implement agentic coding techniques and LLM-backed workflows to accelerate development and automate reasoning over security data.
Establish evaluation, measurement, and monitoring for AI-assisted components to ensure quality and reliability in production.
Translate regulatory requirements like SOC 2 and ISO 27001 into automated, testable checks with clear pass/fail logic.
Build integrations across Azure, Microsoft Graph, and CI/CD pipelines to consolidate authoritative signals into auditable pipelines.
Manage the full operational lifecycle of services, including defining SLOs, instrumenting telemetry, and participating in on-call rotations.
Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design documents, and mentoring other engineers.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience in languages like C#, Python, Java, or JavaScript.
Master's degree and 6+ years of experience, or a Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience is preferred.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check every two years.
Experience building cloud services and distributed systems with depth in Azure, cloud-native architecture, and API/platform engineering.
Knowledge of security or compliance engineering including threat modeling, vulnerability management, and identity and access management.
Hands-on experience building AI-enabled applications using LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, and vector search.
Experience automating evidence collection or continuous control monitoring against frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, or PCI DSS.
Proficiency in infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, containers, Kubernetes, and security data pipelines.