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Posted date: Mar 23, 2026
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $188,900
Range: $119,800 - $258,000
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewAre you passionate about building cutting-edge technology to address critical security challenges in today's digital landscape? Do you want to lead and mentor a team as part of a greenfield project to build a scalable, high-performance data platform for security data? Join us at Microsoft Security and contribute to a mission that empowers users, customers, and developers with innovative solutions to secure digital technology platforms, devices, and multi-cloud environments.
At Microsoft Security, we are committed to making the world a safer place by developing an end-to-end security cloud that simplifies and strengthens our customers' security postures. With ever-increasing threats, regulatory requirements, and estate complexity, organizations face daunting challenges managing and securing vast amounts of data across on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments. Our team is building a high-scale, exabyte-scale data platform to help enterprises: Inventory and map their entire digital estate: From devices and users to permissions, data systems, and virtual machines, we help organizations discover and gain visibility into every asset. Integrate and normalize data: By pre-integrating security data from disparate sources and standardizing it, we empower customers to store, retain, and use security logs more efficiently and affordably. Answer critical security and governance questions: From identifying what systems exist and what's in them, to ensuring compliance with legal and corporate policies, we provide customers with insights and control over their security landscape. By leveraging an advanced security graph, built using AI and machine learning algorithms, we enable organizations to detect patterns, uncover threats, and make informed decisions about their digital estate's security posture in real time.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and deploying this exabyte-scale platform that can process data across billions of streams, files, tables, and reports. Additionally, you will be expected to guide and mentor junior engineers, driving their features and projects from conception to delivery. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a highly collaborative environment, delivering a solution that makes security management accessible and actionable for organizations of all sizes.
Responsibilities
Lead the design and implementation of large-scale data pipelines and services to support security data ingestion, normalization, and storage. Mentor and guide junior engineers, providing technical direction, reviewing code, and ensuring best practices are followed. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, security experts, and data scientists to translate business requirements into technical solutions. Optimize platform performance to handle vast amounts of data across diverse digital systems while ensuring scalability, availability, and security. Drive end-to-end project delivery, ensuring timely and high-quality results. Work on cloud-native technologies and distributed systems to build a robust, resilient, and secure platform. Continuously improve the platform by leveraging new technologies and best practices in security, data governance, and cloud infrastructure.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.Other Requirements
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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.Additional or preferred qualificationsMaster's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.7+ years of experience building software systems, with a focus on large-scale, distributed platforms. Proven track record of building scalable, distributed systems or data platforms. Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP. Strong understanding of security principles and the challenges of securing large-scale systems. Experience working with high-scale, mission-critical SaaS products, including service operations. Expertise in cloud-native architecture, microservices, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes). Experience with security data management, logging, or monitoring solutions. #MSFTSecurity #SentinelPlatform
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.
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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.
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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.