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.

We are looking to hire a Software Engineer II to join the Microsoft Digital Security & Resilience (DSR) team. The mission of Microsoft DSR is to enable Microsoft to build the most trusted devices and services, while keeping our company safe and our data protected. As part of the Microsoft Security organization, and a steward of Microsoft and our customer's data, a core function of Microsoft DSR is ensuring the security of every aspect of the business. Microsoft DSR is responsible for company-wide information security and compliance, with a strategic focus on information protection, assessment, awareness, governance, and enterprise business continuity.

As a successful candidate you will support existing applications and services responding to emerging needs as well as addressing any outstanding issues within your specific area. By applying to this U.S. based position, remote work is supported from a US-based location, but relocation does not apply/is not provided for the role.

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

• Adhere to modern engineering practices, enacting change to services through software engineering, unit testing, debugging, refactoring, code reviews and maintaining build/deployment pipelines.

• Identify opportunities and drive the implementation of automation to improve service health, manageability, reliability, and telemetry.

• Own, triage, investigate and resolve service issues with an emphasis on broad communication, learning & teaching throughout the process.

• Author functional and technical documentation. Communicate on a deep technical level with product engineering, project management and operations teams to improve. and optimize products, improve infrastructure, and evolve services.

• Remain current on new technologies, methods and procedures including, but not limited to, coding practices such as Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment.

• Translate business requirements into technical specifications and help manage priorities, deliverables, and timelines.

• You will be a service owner and will be responsible for all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle.

Other

• Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

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.

• 2+ years of professional software development experience using C# programming language.

• 2+ years of professional troubleshooting/debugging experience.

Other Requirements:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: 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:

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

• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of professional experience working in the Azure, AWS or GCP clouds.

• 2+ years of professional experience with writing tools, automation, and enhancements to deliver and manage services in production.

• Enterprise scale virtualization experience.

• Experience working on large scale services, components, or feature areas.

• Demonstrated understanding of monitoring, alerting, and observability philosophies and best practices.

• Knowledge of Intune/MEM.

• Ability to exercise cross-team co-operation and influence.

• Understanding of IAM (Identity Access Management) and networking fundamentals like TCP/IP, ports, and DNS.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 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 June 14, 2024.

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