Senior Software Engineer - Cloud and Enterprise Security

Senior Software Engineer – Cloud and Enterprise Security

Date posted: Mar 17, 2025

Job number: 1814591

Work site: Up to 50% work from home

Travel: 0-25%

Role type: Profession – Software Engineering

Employment type: Full-Time

Overview

This job posting represents multiple open positions across several of our Cloud and Enterprise teams. We are currently undergoing a significant hiring push, with numerous opportunities available. All relevant applicants will be matched to the most suitable team later in the hiring process.

Are you passionate about cyber defense and making major customer impact? Do you want to be part of an excellent team shaping the future of Cloud and Enterprise Security? Do you have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, a strong technical background, and great passion for \“moving the needle\“?

If you\’re looking for a way to change the world and make an impact by making it more secure, come join us working for the largest security company in the world on leading planet-scale products!

Our rapidly growing group builds leading globally available Cyber Defense solutions at massive scale, working with a diverse set of technologies spanning client, backend, big-data, and frontend.

Projects developed in our group include:

• Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC), which is disrupting Cloud Security by building a solution for protecting multi-cloud workloads, including cloud security posture management (CSPM) that finds weak spots across cloud configuration, helps strengthen the overall security posture, and identifies risk, and Threat protection which identifies real-time attacks and helps the SOC respond and mitigate.
• A major and disruptive, newly formed project that aims to revolutionize Secure Posture Management and take cyber protection effectiveness to a new level, making a substantial difference across the Microsoft Defender Suite, through offering a Unified, complete, and context-rich autonomous posture.

As a member of our team, you\’ll get to work on an innovative product that\’s shaking up the cyber security market. This exciting security solution utilizes cutting-edge technology, big data, and machine learning to revolutionize the way security teams operate.

We’re a fast-moving, hands-on, resilient team of software engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE), program management, security research, and data science – working together to deliver products that offer protection, detection, and response to evolving cybersecurity threats across the globe!

We use state-of-the-art cloud technologies and big data solutions at hyper scale and modern UX platforms to deliver the highest value for our customers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Software Engineering
• 5+ years of proven hands-on technical skills working on large scale production systems
• Experienced in cloud programming environments, using modern architecture
• BSc or MSc in Software Engineering or Computer Engineering
• Team player with excellent collaboration, communication, and leadership skills
• Attention to detail and passion for quality engineering
• Demonstrate success dealing with ambiguous “unsolved” problems, and the ability to independently make solid progress by breaking new ground

Advantages

• Experience with Security/Cyber domains
• Experience with Kubernetes and Containers
• Experience with .NET/C#
• Experience with Azure cloud environment
• Experience with application and system monitoring systems

Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have the incredible opportunity to work on business-critical initiatives that directly contribute to the future of Microsoft Security business. You must be deeply technical and able to ramp up in new areas quickly since your responsibilities will span many areas of Microsoft Security products as well as all layers of the cloud technology stack. Excellent design and architecture skills, the ability to grow top-notch individual contributor dev talent, along with proven capabilities in planning, designing, and executing high-quality feature work on schedule are all key expectations of the role.

Benefits

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work:

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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