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.

Companies collectively have multitude of systems (devices, users, permissions, data systems etc.) and own Exabytes of data across hundreds of billions of streams, files, tables, reports, spreadsheets, VMs (Virtual Machines), Notebooks, and so on. Yet customers can’t answer basic questions like what systems do they have in their digital estate? What’s in those systems? Companies can’t protect or govern what they don’t know. Are the systems being used in ways that comply with both legal and corporate policies? Our team’s job is to answer these questions for customers across on-prem, multi-cloud, SaaS systems etc. by building a Software as a Service infrastructure to:

• Inventory all the systems that exist in customers digital estate.
• Pre-integrate data in customers digital estate, normalize it in a standard format to make security log retention and use significantly more affordable with less effort.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to build next generation security data platform and partner with several teams in Microsoft Security and Azure organization.
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REQUIRED 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.

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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.
• Minimum of 12+ years of applicable work experience
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and common Design Patterns
• 14+ years of relevant software development experience and big data processing experience
• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.
• Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks.
• Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience.
• Analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.
• Experience building scalable and reliable services.
• Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes.
• Collaborating with technical partners to deliver end-to-end solutions
• Experience with multithreading and asynchronous processing
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline using agile practices
• Ability to quickly ramp up on multiple technology areas
• Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges
• Cultural sensitivity and an ability to work with teams and partners across multiple geographies.
• A sense of personal ownership is required, together with the ability to deliver to tight deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations
• Self-motivated and organized to deliver results
  Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
  Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 17, 2024.
  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.
  Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
  

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations

Responsibilities:

• As a Principal Engineering, you will be responsible for the following:
• Driving the strategy, vision, and execution for the team in collaboration with the Data Security Leadership team - compromised of engineering, design, and program management leaders.
• Lead team through design, architecture and execution of core services at planet scale.
• Lead the definition of requirements, key performance indicator (KPIs), priorities and planning of engineering deliverables.
• Innovate and make service deployment and maintenance an efficient well-oiled machine that provides optimal reliability with minimal manual engineer intervention.
• We are looking for someone who has experience building great software for enterprises. You will work in a forward-looking product as part of an agile, collaborative, and cross-discipline team.
• Embody our Culture and Values