Senior Software Engineer

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. 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.

Are you passionate about creating innovative technology to tackle critical security challenges in today’s digital landscape? Do you want to lead and mentor a team on a greenfield project aimed at building a scalable, high-performance data platform for security data? Join us at Microsoft Security and contribute to our mission of empowering users, customers, and developers with advanced solutions for securing digital technology platforms, devices, and multi-cloud environments.

At Microsoft Security, we are dedicated to making the world safer by developing an end-to-end security cloud that simplifies and strengthens our customers' security postures. As organizations face increasing threats, regulatory demands, and complexities in managing vast amounts of data across on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments, our team is building a high-scale, exabyte-level data platform to support enterprises in:

• Inventorying and mapping their entire digital estate: We help organizations gain visibility into every asset, from devices and users to permissions, data systems, and virtual machines.
• Integrating and normalizing data: By pre-integrating security data from various sources and standardizing it, we empower customers to store, retain, and utilize security logs more efficiently and cost-effectively.
• Addressing critical security and governance questions: We provide insights and control over security landscapes, helping customers identify existing systems and ensuring compliance with legal and corporate policies.

Using an advanced security graph powered by AI and machine learning algorithms, we enable organizations to detect patterns, uncover threats, and make informed decisions about their digital security posture in real time.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and deploying this exabyte-scale platform capable of processing data across billions of streams, files, tables, and reports. You will also mentor junior engineers, guiding their projects from conception to delivery. This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative environment, delivering a solution that makes security management accessible and actionable for organizations of all sizes.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of large-scale data pipelines and services to support security data ingestion, normalization, and storage. 
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, providing technical direction, reviewing code, and ensuring best practices are followed.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, security experts, and data scientists to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Optimize platform performance to handle vast amounts of data across diverse digital systems while ensuring scalability, availability, and security.
• Drive end-to-end project delivery, ensuring timely and high-quality results.
• Work on cloud-native technologies and distributed systems to build a robust, resilient, and secure platform.
• Continuously improve