New 
Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Mar 16, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity 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.The Microsoft Purview - Data Security Agents team comprises of talented engineers dedicated to developing innovative software Agents using cutting-edge technologies such as Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs), Large Language Models (LLM), and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Our mission is to empower customers to harness the power of AI and GPTs to meet their digital data security and compliance needs, more efficiently. As a large-scale cloud service, we leverage state-of-the-art Azure technology to deliver robust, reliable, and scalable solutions. Our team collaborates closely, employing innovative technologies and methodologies to streamline workflows and enhance productivity. We prioritize quality, security, and privacy, ensuring that every feature meets the highest standards. We look forward to leading the transformation in how organizations safeguard and manage their data. 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.
ResponsibilitiesWe are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer with a strong technical background, experience and passion for designing, developing, and deploying high-scale, high-throughput, and highly performant multi-tenant services. The ideal candidate will have the ability to lead efforts and discussions for the architecture of aspects of products/solutions. Independently creates and mentors others for a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring the quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests. Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. Collaborate effectively with various partner teams, including UX designers, product owners, data scientists, and other engineering teams. They should be adept at understanding requirements, identifying and addressing ambiguities, and translating them into well-implemented, high-quality code that ensures customer success at cloud scale. Responsibilities include:* Lead by example and mentor team members to produce extensible, maintainable, and high-quality code. Optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to enhance performance and maintainability.* Identify and implement best practices and coding patterns, providing deep expertise in coding and validation strategies. Utilize debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively and reactively resolve issues.* Oversee the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms. Facilitate coordination and communication across teams to resolve conflicts and ensure security and performance.* Lead architectural discussions, create proposals, and oversee the testing of hypotheses and proposed solutions. Mentor team members in testing and quality assurance, defining success criteria for test outcomes.* Enhance, reuse, and identify new software developer tools to support programs and applications. Stay current with new trends, technical solutions, and patterns to improve product performance and consistency.* Ensure adherence to processes that achieve high standards of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility. Lead product development and scaling to meet customer requirements and performance expectations.* Oversee the implementation and deployment of solutions, optimizing deployments to meet business objectives. Drive experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes and improvements. Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and mentor other engineers. Integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior and drive sustaining feedback loops. | |