Senior Back-End Software Engineer

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The Platform Job Service is the core compute orchestration layer for Microsoft Sentinel Graph (MSG), designed to abstract and unify job execution across diverse engines like Spark, KQL, Azure Synapse, Fabric, and Azure Data Explorer. The team is building a highly scalable, reliable, and available infrastructure that supports a wide variety of job types-ranging from enrichment pipelines to behavioral analytics and system-level operations. PJS enables declarative job submission, where users define what they want to achieve (e.g., run a Spark job with specific parameters) without worrying about how it gets executed. The system dynamically selects the appropriate compute backend, manages dependencies, schedules execution, and provides real-time monitoring and historical analytics. As a Senior Software Engineer on the PJS team, you are a technical leader and hands-on contributor responsible for designing, building, and securing the compute orchestration infrastructure that powers job execution across Spark, KQL, and other engines. Your work directly impacts the scalability, reliability, and security posture of Sentinel Graph's data processing backbone.

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• Contributes to processes for the architecture of a product/solution feature and helps to create proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans.
• Helps identify other teams and technologies that will be leveraged, how they will interact, and when one's system may provide support to others.
• Support efforts to apply debugging tools and examines logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur for product features.
  Participate in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed.
• Conduct and create experiments to determine the effectiveness of changes for prototyping and testing features, and applies those findings back into development.
• Maintains operation of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis.
• Alert stakeholders their statuses and garner approval to restore systems/products/services.
  Respond within Service Level Agreement timeframes.
• Considers partners across teams and their end goals for products to drive and achieve user experiences and fitting the dynamic needs of partners/customers through product development.

Required/minimum 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 equivalent experience.

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

• 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.
• 2+ years of experience designing and building solutions using microservices architecture.
• 4+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices.
• 4+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP, or comparable cloud environments, with production ownership and CI/CD pipeline integration.
• 4+ years of experience applying distributed systems concepts such as concurrency, conflict resolution, and consensus algorithms to build resilient and maintainable back-end architectures.
• 4+ years of experience building systems with emphasis on reliability, durability, and operational efficiency, including experience with live site operations, incident response, and performance optimization.
• 4+ years of experience programming in modern back-end languages such as C#, Java, Go, or Python.

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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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