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Home›Jobs›Microsoft›Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure & Backend
Microsoft

About Microsoft

Empowering every person and organization on the planet

🏢 Tech👥 100K+📅 Founded 1975📍 Redmond, Washington, United States

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  • Market cap exceeds $2 trillion
  • 100,000+ employees worldwide
  • Leading cloud services through Azure
  • Major clients include Walmart and BMW

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Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure & Backend

Microsoft • United States, Washington, Redmond

Posted 1w ago🏛️ On-SiteSeniorBackend engineer📍 Redmond
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Skills & Technologies

AzureC#.NET Core

Job Description

Overview

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 Microsoft Security Purview Team is responsible for a broad suite of data governance, data security, compliance, privacy, and risk management solutions across Microsoft 365, Azure, and multi-cloud environments. We are looking to hire Senior Software Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure & Backend for the Purview team, you will help ensure the software, tools, and code meets the highest standards for scale and security. This opportunity will allow you to learn about customer scaling requirements and the application of best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations, while ensuring the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility and of course security. You will look for opportunities to raise the security bar as you apply Microsoft’s security policies and best practices.

 

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
  • Owns product/solution architecture by testing design hypotheses and creating detailed specifications.
  • Explores and evaluates design options, outlining strengths and weaknesses for complex scenarios.
  • Collaborates with architects to build and modify complex solutions, providing feedback proactively.
  • Identifies and manages dependencies, ensuring security, compliance, performance, and reliability across systems.
  • Coordinates with other teams to resolve conflicts and achieve common goals where dependencies overlap.
  • Produces high-quality, secure, and performant code, applying best practices and improving maintainability.
  • Escalates blockers and risks, communicating impacts on timelines and proposing mitigation strategies.
  • Conducts timely code reviews, ensuring standards, test coverage, diagnosability, and adherence to best practices.
  • Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), monitoring systems, responding to incidents, and driving global resolutions.
  • Leads efforts to reduce incident volume, analyzing patterns and implementing broad preventive measures.


Qualifications

Required 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.

 

Qualifications - 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 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
  • 6+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices.
  • 6+ years of experience working with distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Databricks, or similar technologies to transform and manage large-scale datasets.
  • 6+ years of experience designing and developing scalable solutions using microservices architecture and related technologies (e.g., REST, gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes).
  • 3+ years of experience building consensus and resolving conflicts across cross-functional teams to drive alignment and effective decision-making.

 

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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.

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


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.

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