Sr. Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly

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.

Are you interested in working on cutting-edge cloud security products? Would you like to be part of one of the world’s most advanced cyber-security solutions and protect millions of computers from thousands of active attack attempts every month? The Microsoft Defender engineering team is responsible for delivering a constantly evolving set of services and solutions to meet the challenging landscape of ever-evolving attackers. This is a combined DevOps team which provides leadership, direction, and accountability for cloud design, service architecture, engineering infrastructure, and data platform development.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, direction, and accountability for application architecture, cloud design, infrastructure development, and end-to-end implementation for Sovereign and Government Clouds.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure services and systems are highly stable, performant, and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users.
• Build and improve services to be scalable and highly reliable.
• Help deliver and improve engineering systems and practices to operate services in complex cloud environments.
• Contribute to the design and automation of service scale features and customer requirements.
• 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) within a secure facility.
• Embody Microsoft’s culture and values.

Requirements

• 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.
• Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements pre-offer and post-hire.
• Verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.
• Pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 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 equivalent experience.
• Understanding and experience with CI/CD concepts and Git.
• 4+ years of Windows/Linux hands-on system experience.
• Experience debugging issues ranging from the operating system, application, and all the way to the cloud.
• Experience solving operational issues in a scalable way.
• Ability to thrive with ambiguity in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Support a 24x7 live site support model for the services the team owns.
• Experience with Kubernetes and related technologies.
• Experience with building and supporting large-scale production services, including logging, monitoring, alerting, and measuring reliability and availability.
• Proficient in at least one scripting language but knows when to move solutions into managed code.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub tooling.
• Demonstrated communication skills and ability to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Software Engineers, Program Managers, Security Researchers, and Data Scientists.

Pay

The typical base pay range for this role in the Reston, VA location is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.