Senior Software Engineer - Top Secret - CTJ - Microsoft

Are you interested in working for one of the most exciting and fast-growing teams in Microsoft? Then look at the Microsoft Defender Engineering team. You will be building cloud solutions in order to meet scales that few companies in the industry are required to support. Leveraging state of the art technologies, you will be instrumental in delivering holistic protection to a user base of tens of thousands of government organizations, enterprises, and SMB businesses around the globe. The Microsoft Defender team is responsible for delivering a constantly evolving set of services and solutions to meet the challenging landscape of our ever-evolving attackers.  

This is a combined SWE/SRE (DevOps) team which provides leadership, direction, and accountability for cloud design, service architecture, engineering infrastructure, and data platform development. You will help conduct business reviews and operate our production services. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services and systems are highly stable, performant, and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users. 

The team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, Cloud design, Infrastructures development and end to end implementation for our Sovereign Clouds. You will independently determine and develop architectural approaches and Infrastructure solutions, conduct business reviews, and operate our production services. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users.

Core Responsibilities:

• Write concise and clean code with unit tests
• Build scalable, high-performance services that are highly reliable
• Design and automate service scale features and customer requirements
• Design and implement improvements to our security posture and compliance automation
• Be part of a Dev-Ops team that handles and remediates customer issues
• Collaborate with partner teams to meet the engineering goals in a unified manner
• Contribute to significantly improving the security rigor of our system to be best-in-world
• Design and implement new features as well as add functionality to existing systems
• Investigate pre-production and production issues, implement, and deploy fixes
• Participate in an on-call rotation (typically 24/7 for one week every 6-8 weeks)
• Being enthusiastic, self-motivated, and a great collaborator
• Being passionate about making customers successful

If you are highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast paced, highly technical environment you have a strong customer focus and understand the importance of Live Site Demonstrated ability to establish and manage relationships across organizational boundaries. Proven experience dealing with large scale data architecture, operational architecture and or network Architecture Proven experience creating distributed systems tools of moderate to high complexity. You will be responsible for working with various disciplines; Engineers, Researchers, Data Scientists; in order to address customers’ needs and create new scenarios and features that provide customer value.

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
• Significant development experience using common object-oriented or functional languages
• Strong understanding and experience with CI\CD concepts and source control
• 5+ years of Windows / Linux hands on system experiences
• Proven experience with building and supporting services, including logging, monitoring, alerting, and measuring reliability and availability.
• Ability to design and build proof of concepts
• Ability to manage multiple project phases at the same time 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills 
• Ability to thrive with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment
• Exceptional Leadership skills: Sound problem resolution, judgment, negotiating and decision-making skills
• Support a 24x7 live site support model for the services the team owns

Candidates must have an active Top Secret and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph) or have an active TS/SCI and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements.

Candidates selected for this position must comply with Federal Executive Order 14042 mandating that federal contractors and subcontractors receive the COVID-19 vaccine by being fully vaccinated before their date of hire, or work with Microsoft to receive an approved religious or medical accommodation.

Preferred Experiences and Technologies: 

• 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 related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
• Kubernetes, and the Kubernetes satellite technologies
• Spark, Data Lake or big data platform pipeline development (Ex. Azure Data Factory, Data Explorer/Kusto, Data Bricks, Spark)
• Azure DevOps and GitHub tooling 
• Data mining or data science experiences utilizing Big Data and\or relational database technologies
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Software Engineers, Program Managers, Security Researchers, and Data Scientists
• Development experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Security division is committed to our workforce reflecting the diversity of our customers and our communities. Our mission is deeply inclusive: empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We expect each of us—no matter what our level, role, or function is—to play an active role in creating environments where people of diverse backgrounds are excited to bring all of who they are and do their best work.

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