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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.

The Microsoft Defender for Office (MDO) team delivers a cloud-based email and message filtering service that safeguards customers against advanced threats—such as malware, phishing, fraud, and spam—across Microsoft’s email and Teams collaboration platforms. MDO equips security teams with investigation, threat-hunting, and remediation capabilities, enabling them to efficiently detect, prioritize, and respond to threats.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead the development of protections and features for our Teams integration. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with the Teams and IC3 organizations to identify requirements, design, and implement solutions that block malicious content in customer collaboration (e.g. chats) and allow M365 customers to manage the state of their Tenant with regards to threats that surface in this context.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features in our Security Operations Center, equipping M365 customers with comprehensive threat-hunting and remediation capabilities.

• Follow Safe Deployment Practices, including pre-production testing, blast radius reduction, early issue detection, and rollback strategies.

• Mentor junior engineers by providing technical guidance, conducting code reviews, and promoting best practices.

• Collaborate with product management, security experts, and data scientists to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.

• Lead end-to-end project delivery to achieve timely, high-quality results.

• Utilize cloud-native technologies and distributed systems to develop a resilient, secure platform.

• Enhance our codebase by adopting new technologies and best practices in security, data governance, and cloud infrastructure.

• Other

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• Proven ability to conduct efficient design and architectural discussions.

• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, demanding project environment and drive effective discussions and outcomes.

Other Requirements

• 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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR 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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until December 5, 2024

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .