Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
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.
Our Generalized Agents team is responsible for building advanced AI innovation for the security business. This role is very crucial to ensure success of AI innovation we are building and entails end to end envisioning of how AI can help threat hunting and security research broadly and build AI agents to help the personas. We are looking for individuals with "go get it done" approach to a problem where they show hard work, growth mindset, goal and outcome, oriented thinking and ship fast and learn fast execution style. The key to success in this role is velocity, agility and versatility
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.
Responsibilities
- E2E development of AI products for Microsoft Security customers including design, conceptualizing, shipping and maintaining
- Engineering excellence including robust secure code practices, incident management, robust scaleable development
- Mentor team of junior engineers in the team to deliver
- Adapt AI first engineering for agility and velocity
- Partner with product stakeholder and research crews to deliver world class AI products
- Lead and manage execution plan per the aligned roadmap
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices.
- 6+ years of experience designing and building scalable data pipelines and analytics infrastructure using orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, Azure Data Factory, or equivalent, with an emphasis on data quality, automation, pipeline reliability, and framework development.
- Should have xperience working with distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Databricks, or similar technologies to transform and manage large-scale datasets.
- 6+ years of experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP, or comparable environments, including building and operating scalable, highly available services and systems.
- Experience programming in Python, Scala, or similar languages for data engineering tasks, including performance tuning, observability, and working with query languages such as KQL.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.