Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all by reshaping security and empowering users, customers, and developers with a security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Purview Team is responsible for a broad suite of data governance, data security, compliance, privacy, and risk management solutions across Microsoft 365, Azure, and multi-cloud environments. They are looking to hire Back-End Senior & Principal Software Engineer(s) to ensure software, tools, and code meet the highest standards for scale and security, addressing customer scaling requirements, best practices for scaling needs and performance expectations, and ensuring security, privacy, safety, and accessibility.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices.
- 4+ years of experience working with distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Databricks, or similar technologies to transform and manage large-scale datasets.
- 4+ years of experience designing and developing scalable solutions using microservices architecture and related technologies (e.g., REST, gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes).
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices.
- 8+ years of experience working with distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Databricks, or similar technologies to transform and manage large-scale datasets.
- 8+ years of experience designing and developing scalable solutions using microservices architecture and related technologies (e.g., REST, gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes).
Responsibilities
- Owns product/solution architecture by testing design hypotheses and creating detailed specifications.
- Explores and evaluates design options, outlining strengths and weaknesses for complex scenarios.
- Collaborates with architects to build and modify complex solutions, providing feedback proactively.
- Identifies and manages dependencies, ensuring security, compliance, performance, and reliability across systems.
- Produces high-quality, secure, and performant code, applying best practices and improving maintainability.
- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), monitoring systems, responding to incidents, and driving global resolutions.
- Leads efforts to reduce incident volume, analyzing patterns and implementing broad preventive measures.
Other
- 3 days / week in-office
- Travel 0-25%
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- 2+ years of experience building consensus and resolving conflicts across cross-functional teams to drive alignment and effective decision-making.
