The Cloud & AI 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 is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

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.

We are looking for an early in profession Software Engineer to join our Azure Security Monitoring team, which is responsible for building large scale microservices that collect and process terabytes of data every day to protect and keep Microsoft Azure secure. In this role, you will help in building critical infrastructure which will focus on protecting and securing the compute resources in Azure and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of security at Microsoft. If you have an interest for data, coding, and are interested in leveraging large volumes of data to draw deep insights designed to improve protecting customers against cyber-attacks, then apply today to join this dynamic team!

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

• Design, develop, and maintain high‑scale services that form the backbone of security monitoring.
• Implement security controls, defenses, and countermeasures to detect, intercept, and prevent internal and external threats targeting company email, data, e‑commerce, and web‑based systems.
• Research and analyze attempted or successful efforts to compromise system security and identify opportunities for improved protections.
• Collaborate closely with internal and external partners across the Microsoft Security organization to design and build features that protect Microsoft first‑party products and services.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, adaptation, reflection, and growth.
• Mentor peers to uphold engineering best practices and maintain a consistently high bar for code quality.
• Champion a “can‑do” mindset and positive accountability across the organization.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience programming in C++/C# or Python or Scala or similar technologies.

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Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 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 $109,000 - $180,400 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.

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.