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. The **M365 Security Protect team** is dedicated to securing the world's most extensive productivity applications, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams (M365). We provide cutting-edge protection solutions focused on access control, engineering, DevOps, and data analytics to identify threats and safeguard our M365 services, which are critical targets in the cybersecurity landscape. We are looking for a passionate **Senior Software Engineer** to join our M365 Security Protect engineering team. In this role, you will design, develop, test and maintain world-class, scalable, and reliable cloud services that are built to continually enhance and support the security posture of M365, while also creating innovative solutions to help our products meet security requirements seamlessly. You'll also be able to leverage AI and build Copilot technologies to stay ahead of attackers, enhancing our ability to innovate and protect. As part of the Microsoft Security organization, you will **have a direct impact in contributing to 'Security above all else'** as part of the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI), driven by our mission to protect customer data and privacy in the world's largest productivity suite. You'll work directly on advanced technologies, including access control, secrets management, data analysis, DevOps, and engineering processes. Join us in our mission to build the best security-first culture in the world, leading the way in protecting our M365 services with cutting-edge security solutions! 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. _In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day._ **Responsibilities** + Improve application security maturity at scale by designing, implementing, and building security solutions. + Partner with product managers and security leaders to ensure security maturity work is being prioritized and addressed across Microsoft 365 services. + Building prototypes and proof-of-concept code, working alongside the engineering teams to provide advice on secure design and implementation. + Providing design guidance and security reviews to engineering teams and improving security maturity. + Responsible for leading the development of host-based agents and cloud-based services aimed at automatically enforcing security policy and configuration of both Azure-based PaaS and SaaS services, as well as IaaS based services on Windows and Linux. + Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining a data platform at cloud-scale aimed at providing information needed to enforce security policy and improve the security posture of Microsoft’s services. + Responsible for designing, building and maintaining technical stack for authentication, secret management, just-in-time elevation and just-enough access control, protecting engineering systems and infrastructure. + Embody our culture and values **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# or Java + OR equivalent experience + 1+ years of experience building scalable, efficient, and reliable cloud services. **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. **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. + Experience Optimizing automation, reliability, and monitoring of Livesite. + Experience in cybersecurity areas Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis. \#MSFTSecurity #Azure #M365Protect #M365Security Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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