Senior Software Engineer - Office

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Office Suite is continuously evolving, reaching billions of customers that rely on robust and secure software, features, and services. The Threat Protection team builds security capabilities and mitigations to help our customers get and stay protected. We push the boundaries for what is possible in creating solutions that span platforms, clients, servers, and services while ensuring our core security features inside Office products are reliable, performant, and scalable.
Do you enjoy working in a collaborative and agile environment where you can apply your technical skills and creativity in the security space to address real world problems? Are you passionate about security and working with other experienced Software Engineers to build complex, scalable solutions across platforms for our Office suite of products and services? If so, the Office Product Group Security Threat Protection team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer.
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.

Requirements

• 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++, Rust, C#, Java, JavaScript, Typescript or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• 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++, Rust C#, Java, JavaScript, Typescript 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++, Rust, C#, Java, JavaScript, Typescript or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience designing, implementing, shipping and deploying large-scale solutions, and software development lifecycle.
• 4+ years of experience in C/C++, Rust, C# or similar programming language; including code reviews and code inspection of complex software.
• Understanding of security vulnerabilities and mitigations across platforms, applications, or services.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
• Experience with DevOps tools and practices, such as Git, CI/CD, testing, and monitoring.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, ability to deal with ambiguity, and problem-solving skills.
• Passion for learning new technologies and skills.
• Customer focus and passion for improving engineering efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Discovery of Solutions/Identifying Mitigations - Learns of or discovers new security issues within areas of responsibility, including through the Secure Future Initiative; ability to come up to speed on new threats and mitigations without direction; discovers new information to gain context; decomposes work for collaboration; identifies and creates systematic solutions; identifies gaps in existing or new solutions; successfully operates in uncertain, challenging, and novel environments; and leverages expertise to appropriately drive solutions.
• Solution Engineering - Architects solutions related to specific kinds of security issues; identifies and defines high impact projects and executes cross-company; defines policies, practices, and procedures; weighs business concerns with technical implementation concerns when devising solutions; defines success criteria; prioritizes projects; creates virtual teams to solve problems at scale; and provides review and feedback of implementation.
• Communication/Influence - Helps to make connections and assist in developing agreements among groups to clarify priorities, dependencies, and provide coordination across groups. Advocates for key issues and mitigations to partners and upper management. Autonomously drives coordination and collaboration across groups. Creates and advocates for broadly applicable solutions. Mentors and coaches peers on new approaches and best practices.
• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares. knowledge with other engineers

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level