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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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Senior Software Engineer
The Senior Software Engineer joins the Microsoft Security Studio team to build AI-infused security solutions in a Forward Deployed Engineering model. You will embed with customer engineers and security teams to discover high-value problems and deliver production-ready software. Responsibilities include owning the full lifecycle from discovery and architecture to implementation, AI evaluation, and deployment. You will build intelligent security capabilities, agentic systems, and cloud services that automate workflows and assist defenders. Required skills include proficiency in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Rust, or Python, alongside expertise in distributed systems, cloud architecture, and secure software engineering. You will solve complex problems in security operations, vulnerability discovery, and identity by converting customer insights into reusable assets and patterns.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $208800 from 354 postings across 50 companies.
Design and build AI-infused security software including cloud services, intelligent applications, and agentic systems.
Embed with customer engineering teams to translate ambiguous requirements into executable engineering plans.
Co-develop software in short, iterative cycles using real-user feedback and telemetry to refine solutions.
Own production-quality delivery including architecture, automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability.
Apply secure-by-design principles such as threat modeling, identity management, and data protection across all builds.
Convert customer-specific learnings into reusable components, reference architectures, and actionable product feedback.
Lead technical workstreams by decomposing problems, making architecture decisions, and managing risks and trade-offs.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in one or more languages; or equivalent experience.
Demonstrated experience designing, building, testing, deploying, debugging, and operating substantial production software or cloud services.
Strong software-engineering fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, APIs, distributed systems, cloud architecture, testing, reliability, and maintainable design.
Experience translating ambiguous customer or stakeholder needs into architecture, engineering plans, working software, and measurable outcomes.
Practical knowledge of secure software engineering including authentication, identity, secrets management, threat modeling, data protection, and vulnerability remediation.
Ability to explain complex technical concepts, architecture decisions, trade-offs, and delivery risks to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Master’s Degree and 6+ years of experience; or Bachelor’s Degree and 8+ years of experience; or equivalent experience (preferred).
Strong hands-on experience building and operating AI- or LLM-based applications, agents, or developer systems (preferred).
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