Software Engineer II
Microsoft
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.
Microsoft Purview team is responsible for a broad suite of data security, data governance, compliance, privacy, and risk management solutions across Microsoft 365, Azure, and multi-cloud environments. As senior software engineer on Purview team, you will help ensure the software, tools, and code meets the highest standards for security. You will partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature and consider a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. You will collaborate with others to create a clear and articulated plan for testing, assuring quality of solutions, while applying knowledge of debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively flag issues. This opportunity will allow you to learn about customer scaling requirements and the application of best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations, while ensuring the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility. You will look for opportunities to raise the security bar as you apply Microsoft’s security policies and best practices.
Responsibilities
We are looking for someone who is a highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast paced, highly technical environment, has a strong customer focus and understands the importance of Live Site, has a demonstrated ability to establish and manage relationships across organizational boundaries, has proven experience dealing with large scale data architecture, operational architecture and or network Architecture and proven experience creating distributed systems tools of moderate-to-high complexity. You will be responsible to perform investigations and investments in complex areas; designing and delivering features end to end - including system architecture, code, deployment, scale, performance and quality, from conception to delivery.
- Design and implement scalable, reliable, maintainable services
- Demonstrate understanding of the timing and rationale for design choices, within the scope of work.
- Consistently contribute key ideas to the product or service design and vision that meets the customer's needs
- Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code
- Have a sense of pride, commitment, and personal accountability for the service quality, completeness and resulting user experience for the life of the product or service
- Work closely with geographically distributed team, including Product Managers and developers, to drive key improvements in Engineering Systems.
- Initiate experiments to evaluate new technologies and determine best-fit solutions.
- Develop scalable, high-quality solutions: Build software that is reliable, maintainable, and scalable to meet evolving business needs.
We are looking for someone who shares our passion for building great software for enterprises. You will work in a forward-looking product as part of an agile, collaborative, and cross-discipline team.As a SWE II, you will responsible for all aspects of a feature area including design, implementation, performance and quality. You will take such feature areas from ideation to successful global roll out. You must be self-driven, proactive, and results-oriented.
Qualifications
- Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming, event driven architecture and common
- Design Patterns 3 or 3+ years of relevant software development experience and proficient in C# (Java or C++), JavaScript, Python.
- In-depth knowledge of cloud development (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) Experience developing and shipping Azure Services is a plus Experience and involvement with DevOps is a plus Effective communication/collaboration skills, ability to deal with ambiguity and prioritize issues 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
Interpersonal skills
- Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges
- Cultural sensitivity and a proven 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
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.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.