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As a Senior/Software Engineer II - Agentic Security on the Agentic Security Data Platform team, you will design, build, and modernize services and ingestion pipelines that capture and process security data at scale. You will work on complex distributed systems to create a unified platform for high-volume security and identity telemetry. Your daily responsibilities include developing identity management components, troubleshooting live site issues across compute and networking, and implementing automated validation and CI/CD practices. To succeed, you must be proficient in programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. You will also utilize AI-assisted engineering tools to improve code quality and productivity. This role focuses on solving the technical challenge of building scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient cloud-native services for large-scale security data ingestion and analysis.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $196000 from 2245 postings across 149 companies.
Design, build, and modernize services and ingestion pipelines for high-volume security data.
Develop new identity management components and platform features.
Debug and resolve complex live site issues across distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
Instrument data and develop metrics to measure product usage and performance.
Analyze production telemetry and customer feedback to drive continuous system improvements.
Implement automated validation, CI/CD pipelines, and staged deployment strategies.
Utilize AI-assisted engineering tools throughout the software development lifecycle to improve code quality.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 2+ years of experience coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Ability to pass Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background checks.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of experience coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, distributed data pipelines or ingestion systems for high-volume data streams (preferred).
Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and services used to build scalable, production-grade ingestion systems (preferred).
Experience operating production services at scale, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and on-call support for distributed systems (preferred).
Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD, including building and maintaining automated pipelines for production services (preferred).
Experience leveraging new technologies, such as AI-assisted development and tooling, to improve engineering efficiency (preferred).