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Senior Software Engineer

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Senior Software Engineer in USA

  • Microsoft
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Redmond, WA

Responsibilities

  • Design and operate security state management systems that track posture, apply threshold logic, and drive escalation decisions.
  • Build automated response and remediation workflows for incidents, notifications, deployment safeguards, and escalations.
  • Own and scale cloud-based governance infrastructure with high reliability, scalability, observability, and efficient security-signal processing.
  • Develop escalation, prioritization, alerting, correlation, de-duplication, and smart-routing mechanisms.
  • Integrate security telemetry and risk signals with data engineering and data science systems, including predictive risk models.
  • Ensure 24/7 reliability through monitoring, failover, self-healing, rapid mitigation, controlled overrides, and recovery capabilities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building, deploying, and operating production services.
  • Experience with distributed systems, reliability, scalability, performance, operational excellence, and production service ownership is preferred.
  • Proficiency in a systems or backend language such as Python, Go, C#, or TypeScript is preferred.
  • Experience with automation, platform or reliability engineering, event-driven architectures, workflow orchestration, or state-machine systems is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Azure services, infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates, and secure system design is preferred.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership in architecture decisions, stakeholder alignment, and complex end-to-end delivery is preferred.
  • Ability to pass Microsoft and Microsoft Cloud background checks and verify U.S. citizenship is required.

Benefits

  • The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $119,800–$234,700 per year, with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City range of USD $160,200–$261,000 per year.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Salary: $120k - $261k/yr

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