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.

The Privacy team within the division helps organizations meet regulatory requirements and build customer trust, taking a "privacy by default" stance and empowering individuals to have control over their data. Robust privacy solutions are essential not only in ensuring regulatory adherence, but also in cultivating a culture of transparency, accountability, and respect for user privacy. The team owns and drives the evolution of an existing set of solutions that support privacy operations across an organization's data landscape. Together, these solutions help consolidate privacy, standardize compliance and streamline regulation adherence. The portfolio owned by the team helps the customers in achieving greater user confidence, accelerating digital transformation, and mitigating privacy risks.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer 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. 

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

• Work with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for features. 
• Implement features with efficient code that meets existing coding standards and uses established patterns, with emphasis on reusing code where it makes sense.
• Embrace 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.
• 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.
• Collaborate within and across the team to build solutions, diagnose and resolve issues, and address customer feedback.

Other:

• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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 of experience in proposing and driving architecture for high quality solutions.
• 2+ years of experience in leveraging feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes

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 thereafter.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ 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 rela