About the position
Are you interested in working for on cutting-edge cloud security products? Would you like to be part of one of the world's most advanced cyber-security solutions and protect millions of computers from thousands of active attack attempts, every month? Look no further than the Microsoft Defender engineering team. Defender is looking for a Software Engineer to join our team. You will be building and delivering cloud solutions to meet the scale that few companies in the industry are required to support. Leveraging state-of-the-art technologies, you will be instrumental in delivering holistic protection within highly sensitive and secure government environments. The Microsoft Defender team is responsible for delivering a constantly evolving set of services and solutions to meet the challenging landscape of our ever-evolving attackers. 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.
Responsibilities
- Build and improve services to be scalable and highly reliable.
- Help deliver and improve engineering systems and practices to deliver services in complex cloud environments.
- Contribute to design and automate service scale features and customer requirements.
- Investigate pre-production and production issues, implement, and deploy fixes.
- Participate in an on-call rotation (typically 24/7 for one week every 6-8 weeks) within a secure facility.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- The successful candidate must have 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.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.
Nice-to-haves
- Understanding and experience with CI/CD concepts and Git.
- Experience working with Docker, Kubernetes or other containerization technologies.
- 2+ years of Windows / Linux hands on system experiences.
- Experience debugging issues ranging from the operating system, application, and all the way to the cloud.
- Experienced in solving operational issues in a scalable way.
- Ability to thrive with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment.
- Support a 24x7 live site support model for the services the team owns.
- Kubernetes, and the Kubernetes satellite technologies.
- Some experience with building and supporting large-scale production services, including logging, monitoring, alerting, and measuring reliability and availability.
- Proficient in at least one scripting language but knows when to move solutions into managed code.
- Azure DevOps and GitHub tooling.
- Demonstrated communication skills and ability to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Software Engineers, Program Managers, Security Researchers, and Data Scientists.
Benefits
- Base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $81,900 - $160,200 per year.
- 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 $105,600 - $174,600 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
