Microsoft is looking for a Software Engineer focused on security to develop software, tools, and code that meet the highest standards for security, ensuring the integrity and safety of their platforms and applications.
Requirements
- Proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- 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 equivalent experience.
- Master's Degree (or currently pursuing a 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.
- Learns and applies secure coding standards and best practices through code reviews, developing secure, maintainable, and extensible code with guidance.
- Utilizes debugging and security tools to proactively and reactively address issues in product features, ensuring security, code quality, and reliability.
- Supports the identification of dependencies and designs documentation for product features, learns about system interactions and back-end dependencies, and contributes to architectural processes under guidance.
- Ensures compliance with security, privacy, safety, and accessibility standards, leverages developer tools for code creation and debugging, contributes to automation in production and deployment, and proactively seeks knowledge to improve product security, availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance at scale.
Responsibilities
- Develop software, tools and code to be used in support of design, infrastructure, and technology platforms as well as commercial or end-user applications.
- Create and implement secure and maintainable code for a product, service, or feature.
- Partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature and consider a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.
- Collaborate with others to create a clear and articulated plan for testing, assuring quality of solutions, while applying knowledge of debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively flag issues.
- Learn about customer scaling requirements and the application of best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations, while ensuring the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility.
- Look for opportunities to raise the security bar as you apply Microsoft’s security policies and best practices.
- Learns to review and break down work items into tasks with stakeholder collaboration, provides estimations, and escalates delays, while also supporting feature deployments to customers, considering user and service impacts, and adhering to best deployment practices for safety.
Other
- This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential - and excitement for the journey ahead.
- We’re a company of learn-it-alls rather than know-it-alls and our culture is centered around embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day.
- 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.
- Please note this application is only for roles based in our Redmond, Washington office and/or US-based roles that are not tied to a specific Microsoft office location.
- Demonstrated interest in/experience with security.
