Microsoft · 23 hours ago
Senior Back-End Software Engineer
United States, Washington, Redmond
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is dedicated to making the world a safer place through innovative security solutions. As a Senior Back-End Software Engineer, you will design, build, and secure the compute orchestration infrastructure that powers job execution across various engines, directly impacting the scalability, reliability, and security of Microsoft Sentinel Graph's data processing backbone.
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Responsibilities
Contributes to processes for the architecture of a product/solution feature and helps to create proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans
Helps identify other teams and technologies that will be leveraged, how they will interact, and when one's system may provide support to others
Support efforts to apply debugging tools and examines logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur for product features
Participate in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed
Conduct and create experiments to determine the effectiveness of changes for prototyping and testing features, and applies those findings back into development
Maintains operation of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis
Alert stakeholders their statuses and garner approval to restore systems/products/services
Respond within Service Level Agreement timeframes
Considers partners across teams and their end goals for products to drive and achieve user experiences and fitting the dynamic needs of partners/customers through product development
Qualification
Required
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
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
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 8+ 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
4+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices
4+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP, or comparable cloud environments, with production ownership and CI/CD pipeline integration
4+ years of experience applying distributed systems concepts such as concurrency, conflict resolution, and consensus algorithms to build resilient and maintainable back-end architectures
4+ years of experience building systems with emphasis on reliability, durability, and operational efficiency, including experience with live site operations, incident response, and performance optimization
4+ years of experience programming in modern back-end languages such as C#, Java, Go, or Python
Company
Microsoft
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