Senior Software Engineer

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to help protect over a billion users across the planet?  Are you excited about cybersecurity? If so, read on! The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) team's mission is to protect our customers from the perils and attacks they face as they engage in the online world. The team’s charter is to protect Microsoft 365, the world’s largest productivity service and its principal data store. We continually take inputs from bug bounty, internal penetration test and external customer feedback to keep our customer's data secure. We are tasked with keeping up and exceeding the pace of innovation that is happening around the world.  

The Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management Team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help secure our customers.  You will be working with a talented team of engineers chartered with protecting our services (and customers) from the threats they face in this quickly changing landscape of cybersecurity. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Substrate Security Green Team, you will work with the larger security organization and the Exchange & Substrate product teams to identify areas of security risk, and drive improvements. In this role you will build strategy, write code, work with teams to evangelize secure patterns and build secure services, and drive architectural changes into the product to improve security outcomes. Interested? Come talk to us!

Skills:  

• Experience developing software on large-scale production services
• A track record of effectively collaborating across groups
• Proactiveness and a strong positive outlook and approach
• Comfortable developing tools and libraries, proof-of-concept projects, and reviewing code for security defects and risks. 
• Fluency in coding, rapid prototyping

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

Author Well-Designed, Scalable, Reliable Code: Analyze security threats to the Exchange + Substrate ecosystem. Author thoughtful, well-designed code to address these security problems, including libraries for essential security functions, proof-of-concept code, and bugs or foundational changes to the Exchange + Substrate platform.

Collaborate with Partner Teams: Collaborate with the broader security team and the Exchange/Substrate teams to understand the architecture of Substrate and evangelize thoughtful security improvements.

Security Design: In collaboration with the Security and Substrate teams drive innovation and progress on security design patterns for use in Exchange and Substrate through understanding evolving security risk, security research, and deep technical understanding of engineering patterns.  Implement proof-of-concepts to validate approaches, and author shared libraries consumed by teams across the service.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher, with Master’s in relevant area preferred.  
• 4+ years information security experience, preferably with both engineering and operations experience. 
• 4+ years in software development or with engineering large scale distributed systems. 
• Previous Microsoft experience would be beneficial.   

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.

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