OverviewSecurity represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.
We operate at the heart of Microsoft's Security and Identity ecosystem, engineering the foundational platform that runs seamlessly across all Microsoft clouds and regions. Our focus is runtime efficiency, infrastructure resilience, and service scalability-enabling rapid innovation while maintaining the highest standards of availability, compliance, and security. From orchestrating global deployments to optimizing the execution layer of identity workloads, the team builds a secure, agile, and intelligent platform that keeps Microsoft's identity promise running 24/7 at planetary scale.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
This role is targeting an immediate start date. Responsibilities- With guidance, learns how and creates and implements code for a large scale distributed services runtime
- Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable.
- Learns about and applies diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability, and understands when the code is ready to be shared and delivered.
- Applies coding patterns and best practices to write code (e.g., leveraging state-of-the-art generative artificial intelligence [GenAI], approaches to source code organization, naming conventions).
- With guidance from more experienced colleagues, identifies and escalates blockers or unknowns during the development process, and communicates how they will impact timelines.
- Learns about and helps to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility. Contributes to efforts to check for visible evidence (e.g., audit trail) to demonstrate compliance for product features.
- Develops understanding of the implications of onboarding new technologies following expectations of compliance at Microsoft.
- Develops an understanding of global and local regulations for technologies and system applications.
- Develops and applies knowledge of debugging tools, tests, logs, telemetry, and other methods to begin supporting efforts to proactively flag issues before they occur for product features in production.
- Learns to conduct incident retrospectives to identify root causes of problems, and begins to implement repair actions with direct supervision.
- Grows understanding of and begins to apply least-access principles and uses logging, telemetry, and other appropriate mechanisms with direct supervision to investigate issues while retaining privacy and security.
- Understands proposals and develops an understanding of how to apply them under the technical leadership of others.
- With managerial guidance, tests and explores various design options for a product/solution feature, outlining strengths and weaknesses of each option.
- Produces code to test hypotheses for technical solutions and assists with technical validation efforts.
- Helps with and participates in the development of design documents that support simple user stories with oversight.
- Develops an awareness of the current technology landscape. Escalates findings from investigations to team members for design decisions.
- Learns about the implications of performance, scalability, resiliency, cost of goods sold (COGS), and other requirements and expectations in systems architecture.
- Begins to uphold Microsoft standards of security, privacy, and other compliance requirements in systems architecture.
- Develops an understanding of the importance of building solutions that expand upon the work of others.
- Contributes to the refinement and integration of feedback in product features by escalating findings from analyses to inform decisions regarding the engineering of products.
QualificationsRequired Qualifications:- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements:Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years
Preferred Qualifications:- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Rust, or Python.
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Rust, or Python.
- OR equivalent experience.
- Proven experience with Fullstack development.
- Experience with cloud technologies and services.
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Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $109,000 - $180,400 per year.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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