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Software Engineer - Security

Microsoft
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 26 Feb 2026
💰 $180,400/yr($84,200/yr$180,400/yr)

About the role

Overview

 

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.

 

Microsoft Purview Security and Application platform team leverage AI to delivers a secure, efficient, scalable and reliable platform with core services required to consistently deliver Microsoft Purview features to all our customer across multiple environments

 

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

 

  • Designs, develops, and maintains the Purview playground service to provide an isolated and secure sandbox environment for enterprise customers.
  • Implements advanced security measures and adhere to world-class security standards to protect customer data and ensure compliance.
  • Enables seamless experimentation with advanced LLM-powered Purview skills within the sandbox environment and enable ease of deployment to enterprise customer environments.


Qualifications

 

Required 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:

  • Proven experience in designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP, or comparable cloud environments, with production ownership and CI/CD pipeline integration.
  • Proven experience applying distributed systems concepts such as concurrency, conflict resolution, and consensus algorithms to build resilient and maintainable back-end architectures.
  • Proven experience programming in modern back-end languages such as C#, Java, Go, or Python.
  •  Proven experience developing single-page web applications (SPAs) using JavaScript, TypeScript, or comparable programming languages.

 

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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.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay


This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.



Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protec

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