Senior/Principal Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly

Microsoft Security is seeking a Senior/Principal Software Engineer to join their Defender engineering team. This role involves building and delivering cloud solutions to meet the scale of one of the world's most advanced cyber-security solutions, protecting millions of computers from thousands of active attack attempts every month.

You will be part of a DevOps team responsible for cloud design, service architecture, engineering infrastructure, and data platform development. The role requires collaboration across team boundaries to ensure services and systems are highly stable, meet performance Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and meet the expectations of internal and external customers.

Key responsibilities include:

• Building and improving scalable and highly reliable services
• Leading efforts to deliver and improve engineering systems and practices in complex cloud environments
• Designing and automating service scale features and customer requirements
• Implementing improvements to security posture and compliance automation
• Providing technical leadership for a Dev-Ops team handling customer issues
• Collaborating across teams to meet unified engineering goals
• Contributing to improving the security rigor of the system
• Leading the design and implementation of new features and functionality
• Investigating and resolving pre-production and production issues
• Participating in an on-call rotation within a secure facility

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, with 6+ years of technical engineering experience in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. This position requires an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph.

Microsoft offers a comprehensive benefits package, including industry-leading healthcare, educational resources, savings and investments opportunities, and generous time off. Join Microsoft Security and be part of reshaping security and empowering users, customers, and developers with end-to-end, simplified security solutions.