Job description

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. The Agentic Security Data Platform team builds and operates Microsoft’s next-generation security data platform, enabling the large-scale ingestion, storage, governance, and consumption of security and identity telemetry. Our team develops scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient cloud-native services that enable security organizations and partners to onboard, access, analyze, and derive insights from high-volume security data. As a Software Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will help design, build, and modernize the services and ingestion pipelines that capture and process security data at scale. You will work on challenging distributed systems and data platform problems and contribute to a unified platform that powers Microsoft’s security products. This is an opportunity to build highly scalable, reliable, and efficient systems that support security experiences across Microsoft. 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 • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and customers to gather requirements, provide feedback, and deliver effective solutions. • Instrument data and develop key metrics to measure product usage, effectiveness, and customer satisfaction, enabling data-driven decision making. • Design, develop, and implement new identity management components, features, and platform enhancements. • Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex live site issues across compute, networking, storage, and distributed systems. • Partner with cross-functional teams to improve system reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence. • Analyze production telemetry and customer feedback to identify improvement opportunities and drive continuous enhancements. • Champion the adoption of modern engineering practices, including automated validation, safe and staged deployment strategies, continuous integration and delivery, and developer productivity tooling to increase both engineering velocity and operational confidence. • Actively leverage AI-assisted engineering tools throughout the software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, code review, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation, to improve productivity, code quality, and engineering effectiveness. Qualifications Required Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with 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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Preferred Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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. • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, distributed data pipelines or ingestion systems that process high-volume, continuous data streams. • Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and services used to build scalable, production-grade ingestion systems. • Experience operating production services at scale, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and on-call/live-site support for distributed systems. • Experience with DevOps practices and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), including building and maintaining automated build, test, and release pipelines for production services. • Experience leveraging new technologies, including AI-assisted development and tooling, to continuously improve engineering efficiency and quality. #MSFTSecurity Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: careers.microsoft.com Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: careers.microsoft.com 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, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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Must-haves

Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and customers to gather requirements, provide feedback, and deliver effective solutions.
Instrument data and develop key metrics to measure product usage, effectiveness, and customer satisfaction, enabling data-driven decision making.
Design, develop, and implement new identity management components, features, and platform enhancements.
Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex live site issues across compute, networking, storage, and distributed systems.
Partner with cross-functional teams to improve system reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence.
Analyze production telemetry and customer feedback to identify improvement opportunities and drive continuous enhancements.
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Nice-to-haves

Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, distributed data pipelines or ingestion systems that process high-volume, continuous data streams.
Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and services used to build scalable, production-grade ingestion systems.
Experience operating production services at scale, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and on-call/live-site support for distributed systems.
Experience with DevOps practices and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), including building and maintaining automated build, test, and release pipelines for production services.
Experience leveraging new technologies, including AI-assisted development and tooling, to continuously improve engineering efficiency and quality.
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Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

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