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.
On the
Microsoft Defender for Office team (MDO), we are responsible for delivering a cloud-based email and message filtering service that protects customers from advancedthreats (malware, phish, fraud and spam) in Microsoft's email and Teams collaboration workloads. MDO provides investigation,threat huntingand remediation capabilities that allow security teams to efficiently identify, prioritize, investigate, and respond to threats.
Our team is seeking a
Principal Software Engineer to help drive the delivery of protections and experiences for our Teams integration. You will be part of a team that is working closely with the Teams and Substrate IC3 organizations to identify key requirements and to design and implement great solutions that block malicious content that surface in customer collaboration (e.g. chats) and allow M365 customers to manage the state of their Tenant with regards to threats that surface in this context.
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In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Responsibilities:- Design, implement and test features and functionality in our Microsoft Defender for Office to ensure M365 customers have all the capabilities they need to protect their users on teams while also hunting for and remediating threats to their tenants.
- Adhere to great Safe Deployment Practices (pre-production testing, blast radius reduction, early detection of issues and rollback of changes).
- Work across geographic and organizational boundaries to define requirements, scope work, develop features, integrate functionality, and meet key performance goals.
- Hands-on engineer who delivers high quality code that is maintainable, performant, testable and used in cross products
- Conduct efficient design and architectural discussions, ensuring that solutions are secure, reliable, maintainable, and highly performant. Lead and facilitate technical discussions, encouraging contributions from all team members and fostering an inclusive environment where ideas can be shared without judgment.
- Collaborate closely with multiple partner teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of complex projects.
- Drive effective project management and delivery within a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
- Other
- Embody our culture and values
Qualifications:Required/Minimum Qualifications:- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.
- Proven ability to conduct efficient design and architectural discussions.
- The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, demanding project environment and drive effective discussions and outcomes.
- Strong problem solving and coding skills.
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.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications:- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ 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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience with large scale cloud service development
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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 will accept applications for the role until Deember 13, 2024.
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