"Purview" Senior Software Engineer

Overview

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.

Microsoft Purview solutions is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to offer integrated coverage to address data fragmentation across organizations, improve visibility for data protection and governance, and address the merging of traditional IT management roles. Our team drives engineering efficiency by leading cost-optimization initiatives across our services—strategically migrating Azure resources and continuously improving resource utilization and performance.

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. 

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Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of of robust workflows that streamline deployment and optimize the operations of Microsoft Purview solutions across specialized clouds.
• Mentor and guide engineers, providing technical direction, reviewing code, and ensuring best practices are followed.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, security professionals, and data scientists to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Optimize platform performance to handle vast amounts of data across diverse digital systems while ensuring scalability, availability, and security.
• Drive end-to-end project delivery, ensuring timely and high-quality results.
• Work on cloud-native technologies and distributed systems to build a robust, resilient, and secure platform.
• Continuously improve the platform by leveraging new technologies and best practices in security, data governance, and cloud infrastructure.

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

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

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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 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 equivalent experience
• 9+ years of experience building software systems, with a focus on large-scale, distributed platforms.
• Programming skills in languages such as C#, Java, or C++.
• Experience guiding and mentoring engineers, driving their projects to completion.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Understanding of security principles and the challenges of securing large-scale systems.
• Experience working with high-scale, mission-critical SaaS products, including service operations.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.