Software Engineer II

Microsoft

15h

About The Position

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 provides a broad suite of data governance, data security, compliance, privacy, and risk management solutions across Microsoft 365, Azure, and multi-cloud environments. The Data Classification Service (DCS) empowers Purview customers with faster protection, predictable cost, and resilient experiences across workloads. We are the DCS Core team that drives innovation by advancing AI-first classification capabilities to set new standards for accuracy, speed, and intelligence. In addition, we deliver a unified, self-healing platform for secure, compliant, and reliable classification and sub-second policy decisions on a global scale. We are looking for an experienced software engineer who improves artificial intelligence tools and practices across the software development lifecycle. Partners with internal stakeholders to determine customer/user requirements for scenarios. Leads discussions for architecture of complex products ensuring test strategies for solution quality. Identifies dependencies and produces extensible code across teams. Leads debugging efforts and application of coding patterns to improve code quality. Develops automation for production deployment targeting zero-touch when possible. Ensures visibility for compliance through audit trails and maintains understanding of regulations. Advocates new trends to adapt them to current problems and shares knowledge with peers. Supports collaboration with partner teams, ensuring proper integration before going live.
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 and 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, 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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python - OR equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• 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.
• You will 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.
• You will drive efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms. Drives sustaining feedback loops from telemetry resulting in subsequent designs. Creates outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards.
• You will learn about and contribute to operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis and identify solutions and mitigations to simple issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site services and escalates as necessary.

What This Job Offers

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