The Cloud & AI 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 is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.
Security is one of Microsoft’s highest priorities in a world increasingly shaped by digital threats, regulatory demands, and complex environments. The Microsoft Security organization is committed to making the world safer by delivering end-to-end, simplified solutions that empower users, customers, and developers alike.
The M365 Security Protect team secures the world’s most widely used productivity applications—Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams. Within this team, our Data Platform group builds and operates scalable systems to fetch, store, process, and serve data that powers security views and notifications across Microsoft 365.
We are looking for a Software Engineer who is passionate about building reliable cloud services and eager to grow in a fast-paced, security-first environment. This is an excellent opportunity to work on foundational data infrastructure that directly supports threat detection, incident response, and customer protection.
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
- Designs, implements, and maintains cloud-based data pipelines and services that support security analytics and notifications.
- Collaborates with senior engineers to ensure data quality, scalability, and performance across the platform.
- Contributes to the development of internal tools and automation that improve engineering efficiency and system reliability.
- Participates in code reviews, testing, and deployment processes to ensure high-quality deliverables.
- Learns and applies secure coding practices and contributes to the team’s mission of “security above all else.”
- Engages with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and deliver data solutions that meet security needs.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline.
- OR equivalent experience.
- Proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP) and distributed systems.
- Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering fundamentals.
Additional Requirements
The 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
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
- OR related technical field AND 1+ 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 proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Interest in cybersecurity and secure software development practices.
- 1 + years of experience with cloudservices and DevOps tools.
- Passion for learning and growing in a collaborative team environment.
Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 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 $109,000 - $180,400 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 October 6, 2025.
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