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About Microsoft
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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Listed pay typically runs
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The Senior Software Engineer joins the Microsoft Security team to design, develop, and deliver a high-performance, exabyte-scale security data platform from the ground up. This role involves building scalable distributed systems that ingest, process, normalize, and analyze billions of data streams, files, tables, and reports from on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments. The engineer will tackle complex data challenges to help organizations discover digital assets and identify patterns using advanced graph technologies, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Candidates must possess technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, or Python. Key responsibilities include collaborating with stakeholders to determine requirements, improving system reliability, and developing cloud-native architectures and microservices to solve critical security and governance needs across heterogeneous digital estates.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $196750 from 2546 postings across 156 companies.
Design, develop, and deliver scalable software solutions for a high-performance security data platform.
Build reliable distributed systems capable of operating at exabyte scale across billions of data streams.
Contribute to the architecture and technical design of services for ingesting, processing, and normalizing diverse data sources.
Identify and implement opportunities to improve system performance, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
Incorporate insights from feedback channels into future designs and solution fixes.
Establish continuous feedback loops to measure customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics.
Determine user requirements for specific scenarios by collaborating with project managers and technical leads.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, or Python.
Ability to pass Microsoft and Microsoft Cloud background checks.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, or Python (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, or Python (preferred).
Experience designing, building, or operating scalable distributed systems, data platforms, or large-scale cloud services (preferred).
Experience with cloud computing platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform (preferred).
Knowledge of security principles and challenges associated with securing large-scale, distributed systems (preferred).
Experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, and distributed system design (preferred).
C
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Azure
AWS
GCP
CI/CD
Distributed Systems
AI/ML
Secure Coding
Data Protection
Authentication
Access Control
Monitoring
Telemetry
Python
C#
Java
C++
JavaScript
C
Azure
LLMs
GitHub Copilot
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
GenAI
Distributed Systems
Telemetry
A/B Testing
Threat Modeling
WCAG
Data Structures and Algorithms