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Posted date: Sep 25, 2025
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $222,050
Range: $139,900 - $304,200
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Fully on-site
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
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,â¯devices,â¯and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate.
On the Microsoft Defender for Office team (MDO), we are responsible for delivering a cloud-based email and message filtering service that protects customers from advancedâ¯threats (malware, phish, fraud and spam) in Microsoft’s email and Teams collaboration workloads. MDO provides investigation,â¯threat huntingâ¯and remediation capabilities that allow security teams to efficiently identify, prioritize, investigate, and respond to threats.
Security has never been more important at Microsoft, and the Defender for Office (MDO) team operates at the forefront of our company’s investments to protect customers as they navigate an ever-changing security landscape. In the MDO team, we focus on detecting malicious activity (malware, phish, fraud and spam), responding rapidly and neutralizing the threat.
Our team is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to work in our Foundations organization. You will be responsible for helping build the next iteration of services that will support MDO into the future. This include optimizing our existing architecture for major value savings, embracing new technologies and architectures to enhance MDO's product agility and raising the security & quality bar for the product as a whole.
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.â¯
As a Principal Software Engineer, you should be
comfortable working in an ambiguous and agile environmentcollaborating with peer engineers in MDO and its partner team across MSEC and Substrate to come up with durable solutions that fulfill customer needsBe the change agent on the team to bring in architectural standards, pave a clear iterative path to get us out of bare metal infrastructure and modernize our hosting architecture.Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
Required QualifcationsBachelor'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 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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Additional of Preferred Qualifications:
Master'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 7+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience. Experience with Machine Learning or AI or Big Data.
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 29th, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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