Software Engineer II

Security 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.

Our team is working on Copilot for Microsoft Purview is a dynamic mix of data scientists, software engineers, and user experience designers. We're on a mission to embed cutting-edge AI capabilities into Purview, making data governance and compliance more intuitive and efficient. We collaborate closely, employing innovative technologies and methodologies to streamline workflows and boost productivity. Quality, security and privacy are top priorities for us, and we ensure that every Copilot feature meets the highest standards. Together, we're excited to transform how organizations manage and protect their data.

We are hiring a Software Engineer II to join the Copilot for Microsoft Purview team. We are looking for passionate people with experiences working with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability.  Candidate will need to collaborate closely with user experience dev and data scientists to deliver powerful and reliable Copilot experiences.

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for features. 
• Implements features with efficient code that meets existing coding standards and uses established patterns, with emphasis on reusing code where it makes sense.
• Embraces a systematic approach to analysis and data-driven learning through experimentation. Identifies dependencies, creates, and drives sign-off of design document for a feature, with oversight.
• Learns to break work down into smaller tasks and provide high-confidence time estimates.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Alerts stakeholders as to the status and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.

• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

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