Microsoft · 5 hours ago
Software Engineering Purview Data Security
United States, Washington, Redmond
Full-time
Hybrid
Entry Level
$84K/yr - $165K/yr
1+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company focused on empowering every person and organization on the planet. They are seeking a Software Engineer to join the Purview Data Security team, which aims to build innovative solutions for data protection and security in AI applications. The role involves developing high-performance systems and contributing to a culture of agile and inclusive development.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Develops and applies knowledge of debugging tools, tests, logs, telemetry, and other methods to begin supporting efforts to proactively flag issues before they occur for product features in production. Learns to conduct incident retrospectives to identify root causes of problems, and begins to implement repair actions with direct supervision
Grows understanding of and begins to apply least-access principles and uses logging, telemetry, and other appropriate mechanisms with direct supervision to investigate issues while retaining privacy and security
With guidance, learns how and creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature reusing code as applicable
Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable
Learns about and applies diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability, and understands when the code is ready to be shared and delivered
Applies coding patterns and best practices to write code (e.g., leveraging state-of-the-art generative artificial intelligence [GenAI], approaches to source code organization, naming conventions)
With guidance from more experienced colleagues, identifies and escalates blockers or unknowns during the development process, and communicates how they will impact timelines
Understands proposals and develops an understanding of how to apply them under the technical leadership of others
With managerial guidance, tests and explores various design options for a product/solution feature, outlining strengths and weaknesses of each option
Produces code to test hypotheses for technical solutions and assists with technical validation efforts
Helps with and participates in the development of design documents that support simple user stories with oversight
Develops an awareness of the current technology landscape
Escalates findings from investigations to team members for design decisions
Learns about the implications of performance, scalability, resiliency, cost of goods sold (COGS), and other requirements and expectations in systems architecture
Begins to uphold Microsoft standards of security, privacy, and other compliance requirements in systems architecture
Develops an understanding of the importance of building solutions that expand upon the work of others
Contributes to the refinement and integration of feedback in product features by escalating findings from analyses to inform decisions regarding the engineering of products
Develops knowledge of and learns to apply best practices to build code based on well-established methods and secure design principles
Learns about customer scaling requirements and application of best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and security promises
Learns about and supports deployment to customers by following the correct measures to push features out to customers
Follows safe change deployment practices (e.g., ensuring that flights are set correctly) for their team to minimize adverse impact to users and other services with managerial guidance
Learns about and applies best practices for the deployment of features safely with managerial oversight and/or guidance from more experienced peers
Contributes to monitoring dependency status and ensuring that only the latest, secure versions are deployed
Identifies when rollback plans should be enacted for a product feature with direct supervision
Contributes to building deployment infrastructure to allow developers' private builds for a product feature to be tested in a production-like environment
Acts as a designated responsible individual (DRI) in monitoring a system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions for simple problems, and recommends actions to restore system/product/service by following the playbook
Escalates more complex problems to other DRIs as to status
Responds within service level agreement (SLA) timeframe. Escalates issues to appropriate owners
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
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
Preferred
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 1+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript or Python
Proven Backed experience
Proven experience in C# and PowerShell
Proven experience in distributed systems
Company
Microsoft
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