Overview

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‍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. 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.

The Security Platform team’s mission is to building cloud solutions to support premium features that provide security, compliance, data governance, data loss prevention, and more, in a fully integrated manner from services to clients. We create global scale services to transport, store, secure and manage some of the most sensitive data on the planet and build our services on top of Azure and other cloud platforms. 

The IDC arm of the team is expanding substantially and is looking for talented and highly motivated engineers. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone who has, or wants to build, expertise in cloud distributed systems, or in security and compliance domain, or both.  The team is building cloud solutions meeting scales that only a few companies support in the industry, and leverage state of the art technologies to deliver holistic protection to a large customer base. 

The Security Platform team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, cloud design, infrastructures development and end to end implementation. You will independently determine and develop architectural approaches and Infrastructure solutions, conduct business reviews, and operate our production services. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and meet the expectations of internal and external customers.

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

• You will be responsible to perform investigations and investments in complex areas.
• Designing and delivering features end to end - including system architecture, code, deployment, scale, performance and quality, from conception to delivery. 
• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions 
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.  
• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.  
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.  
• Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site.   
• Adhere to modern engineering practices, effective coding, writing unit test cases, debugging, code reviewing and creating CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipelines.
• Work across geographic and organizational boundaries to define requirements, scope work, develop features, integrate functionality, and meet key performance goals.
• Own and drive projects with large scope and complicated features by working toward self-defined goals and milestones.
• Have a sense of pride, commitment, and personal accountability for the service quality, completeness and resulting user experience for the life of the product or service.

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‍Qualifications‍

• B.Tech or Master's degree in Computer Science Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience. 
• Minimum of 3+ years of applicable work experience. 
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and common Design Patterns. 
• 3+ years of relevant software development experience and proficient in C# (Java or C++).
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases, and good hands-on knowledge of operating systems like Linux or Windows.
• Good knowledge of cloud development (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud).
• Good knowledge with working in Kubernetes, Rest API design and construction. Pub/Sub Models, Modern event processing and large-scale micro services construction.
• Good knowledge in secure coding practices and data structures
• Ability to maintain Build and Deployment pipelines for production.
• Knowledge of performance characteristics of a REST API based service.
• Effective communication/collaboration skills, ability to deal with ambiguity and prioritize issues. 
• Collaborating with technical partners to deliver end-to-end solutions. 
• Experience with multithreading and asynchronous processing patterns.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline using agile practices. 
• Ability to quickly ramp up on multiple technology areas.

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

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