Senior Software Engineer

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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 Platform Job Service is the core compute orchestration layer for Microsoft Sentinel Graph (MSG), designed to abstract and unify job execution across diverse engines like Spark, KQL, Azure Synapse, Fabric, and Azure Data Explorer. The team is building a highly scalable, reliable, and available infrastructure that supports a wide variety of job types—ranging from enrichment pipelines to behavioral analytics and system-level operations. PJS enables declarative job submission, where users define what they want to achieve (e.g., run a Spark job with specific parameters) without worrying about how it gets executed. The system dynamically selects the appropriate compute backend, manages dependencies, schedules execution, and provides real-time monitoring and historical analytics. As a Senior Software Engineer on the PJS team, you are a technical leader and hands-on contributor responsible for designing, building, and securing the compute orchestration infrastructure that powers job execution across Spark, KQL, and other engines. Your work directly impacts the scalability, reliability, and security posture of Sentinel Graph’s data processing backbone.

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.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.
• 2+ years of experience designing and building solutions using microservices architecture.

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 or 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
  • 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
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of security best practices.
• 2+ years experience in Spark, KQL, Azure Synapse, Fabric, and Azure Data Explorer

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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 12, 2025.

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Responsibilities:

• Define and design Security Persona Scenarios: disambiguate user personas and security use cases to design targeted, effective solutions.
• Drive system and service integration: Collaborate across teams to influence architecture and ensure seamless integration between systems and services.
• Lead Innovation through experimentation: Initiate and guide experiments to evaluate new technologies and determine best-fit solutions.
• Develop scalable, high-quality solutions: Build software that is reliable, maintainable, and scalable to meet evolving business needs. *
• Embed operational excellence: Incorporate live site readiness, monitoring, and incident response into the development lifecycle.
• Promote engineering best practices: Advocate for clean code, modern development standards, and continuous improvement in engineering processes.
• Enhance developer productivity: Improve developer tools and automation to streamline workflows and boost team efficiency.