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.

The Purview Data Governance team’s mission is to deliver a market leading solution for enterprise data management, discovery, understanding, and access. The customer personas served by Purview Data Governance include the enterprise data office, enterprise-wide data owners and data stewards, and enterprise-wide data consumers across all organizational functions. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join us in our mission of creating a cutting-edge cloud service and AI (Artificial Intelligence) based enterprise data governance solution and best practices for our customers.

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

• Drives a customer-first, live site-first, design-first, and agile team culture to develop, secure and operate cloud services at high scale, throughput, and resilience.
• Leads and implements design decisions to champion and incorporate scalability, cost optimization, and observability.
• Develops and maintains a comprehensive architecture and execution plan for the long term.
• Creates clarity and leads the definition of priorities and planning of engineering deliverables.
• Solves challenges posed by problems with unclear solutions, timelines, and constraints. 
• Facilitates alignment within and across all the partner teams on technology and design decisions.
• Fosters a culture of partnership, respect, and inclusion working within and across teams, roles, and geography.
• Offers expert technical advice to the leadership team.
• Mentors and grows other engineers.
• Architects and delivers robust Data Governance solutions, innovation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption.
• Collaborates on complex Cross-Functional Projects.

Other

• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.

• 2+ years designing and implementing Big Data infrastructure, compute and spark-based workloads.
  

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