Senior Software Engineer

Core AI is at the forefront of Microsoft’s mission to redefine how software is built and experienced. We are responsible for building the foundational platforms, services, programming models, and developer experiences that power the next generation of applications using Generative AI. Our work enables developers and enterprises to harness the full potential of AI to create intelligent, adaptive, and transformative software. 
  
The 1ES (One Engineering System) team is responsible for enabling the world's best engineering teams with world-class tools and systems that help them ship products their customers love.  
 
Developers rely on many components to build software, including open-source packages, container images and infrastructure-as-code configuration files. Keeping those components up to date is paramount to every modern application’s security and imposes a big cost on development teams. Moreover, the evolving environment of cybersecurity is such that new threat vectors are discovered often and require developers to quickly update their code to keep it protected. 
 
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer within the Open Source Engineering team, who will play a key role in shaping the direction of engineering systems and enhancing developer productivity. The responsibilities will include developing scalable distributed services for open source component inventory management, analysis, and alerting. Additionally, design advanced dependency detection tools that are compatible with emerging ecosystems, deliver improved performance and accuracy, and incorporate AI-driven features to minimize alert noise. Understanding of how package managers and containers work, how packages are built in various languages, how runtimes deal with versioned artifacts and how dependencies are handled would be very useful. 
 
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

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. 
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. 
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). 
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. 
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate. 
•  Interested in new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Qualifications

Required 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 equivalent experience. 
• 1+ year of experience with dependency resolution using package managers like NPM (Node Package Manager), PyPI (Python Package Index), NuGet, Maven
• 1+ year of experience with software security, including threat modeling, isolation, integrity checking, and certificates

Other Qualifications:

• 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 thereafter. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ year of experience with Azure Functions or AWS Lambda 
• 2+ years of experience with SQL Server or Azure Cosmos DB 

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234