Software Engineer I

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Team is growing fast and looking for new talent. We are committed to defending Microsoft customers from cyber-attacks as well as providing sophisticated tooling for securing important data. Our team fosters an agile development environment, continuously gathering and analyzing data to combat evolving threats. Our mission is to help protect customers with truly innovative proactive protection, advise customers on emerging trends, and engage in valuable partnerships.

We strive to stay one step ahead of malicious adversaries and predict the threats of the future. We work with partners across Microsoft to innovate new approaches for detecting and tracking threats, attacker techniques, their tools and infrastructure. We build distributed systems and large-scale cloud service working together as a cross-functional team of Software Engineers, Program Managers, Data Scientists and Security Researchers.

Our cloud services leverage Big Data and employ the latest advancements in AI and Machine Learning (ML) for cyber security. Key product lines built by our team include the world's leading Anti-Virus, the Microsoft Defender which is included as part of Windows and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) for enterprise customers. Our products and services are foundational drivers for Microsoft 365 and are a major growth opportunity for Microsoft.

Making our customers succeed with our solutions is what excites us every day! Our team has people from a wide variety of backgrounds, previous work history , and life experiences, and we are eager to maintain and grow that diversity. Our diversity of backgrounds and experiences enables us to create innovative solutions for our customers, while having a blast working together on building those systems. We are passionate about learning on the job. Our culture is collaborative, and customer focused.

We are looking for a Software Engineer II with problem-solving skills who loves to learn, grow and be a valuable contributor to the team, as well as someone who delivers top quality work with innovative ideas in our security spaces.

We are on a mission to enable endpoint protection to every person and organization on the planet. We are looking for a Software Engineer II to help us design and build services and tools to bring cutting-edge cyber security solutions to our enterprise customers to manage and protect devices against cyber threats. The Software Engineer II will build engineering solutions to accelerate product delivery to global markets. You will be working with other Software Engineers and Software Architects across the globe in an inclusive and collaborative environment.

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• E xperience as a software engineer shipping commercial software products & services.
• Experience in cloud development principles and patterns, including but not limited to the following: loosely coupled architectures, micro-services, and dev-ops model.

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

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 Master'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.
• Communication skills and ability to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Software Engineers, Program Managers, Security researchers, and Data Scientists
• Experience building distributed services.
• Deliver software into services using Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment methodology .
• Experience in test automation tools.
• Design REST based APIs that can be accessed securely from web and client applications.
• Familiar with Secure Software Development Life Cycle.
• Experience with software development tools such as source control systems (GIT), automated build systems, compilers, software validation systems, project tracking, and lifecycle management systems.
• Development experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and AWS.

Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $76,400 - $151,800 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 $100,300 - $165,400 per year.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the

U.S. is USD $94,300 - $182,600 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 $120,900 - $198,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

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Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, test, and deliver with provable quality solutions that are distributed, high scale, high availability, geo-redundant, low maintenance, and high value.
• Adhere to modern engineering practices, effective coding, writing unit test cases, debugging, code reviewing and creating CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipelines.
• Conduct testing and code reviews to ensure quality code is released to production systems.
• Work across geographic and organizational boundaries to define requirements, scope work, develop features, integrate functionality, and meet key performance goals.
• Own and drive projects with large scope and complicated features by working toward self-defined goals and milestones.
• Deliver on engineering commitments, while keeping customer experience and satisfaction as the overarching goal
• Build functional and technical documentation.
• Identify and triage bugs, develop fixes to code defects.