About the position
OneDrive and SharePoint are rapidly growing services at the center of Microsoft's cloud, interacting with almost every part of the company. You would be a part of a team that is fundamentally changing the way that millions of people use their devices and interact with the most important content for their home, work, and school. We are looking for a smart, agile, and intellectually curious Senior Software Engineer who loves creating and building things that delight and protect our customers. You will be working with a team of amazing engineers and working closely with other teams across Microsoft to secure large-scale distributed architectures that deliver OneDrive and SharePoint's core infrastructure needs. You will join a team whose mission is to protect the world's most valuable data by making security failures less likely and less impactful. You will design, develop, deploy, and monitor mitigations that counter threat actor techniques. You will partner with engineers across the company to identify and reduce risk in features that are under development. You will also leverage threat intelligence, incident reports, and your understanding of Microsoft's systems to identify new risks that need mitigation. 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.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
- Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
- Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
- Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
Requirements
- 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#, or Java OR equivalent experience.
- Proficiency in coding, debugging, algorithm design and problem-solving skills.
- Ability and eagerness to work across and partner with multiple engineering teams to achieve business goals.
- Ability to learn new systems quickly and adapt new methodologies to our service.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
Nice-to-haves
- 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 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.
- Experience applying secure software design concepts in large-scale systems.
- Experience performing design reviews of systems that leverage Windows and Azure.
- Experience performing code reviews of large-scale C# web services.
- Experience mentoring and coaching peers and early-in-career engineers.
- Experience designing cloud-scale services and server/service management features.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
