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.

The Purview Data Governance team builds the core experiences that help customers discover, understand, and govern their data at scale. The team enables trusted data usage through cataloging, lineage, classification, and stewardship, forming the foundation for secure and compliant data-driven decisions across Microsoft Purview.

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.

• Architect and design large-scale, distributed, and cloud-based systems that meet high standards for reliability, scalability, performance, and security.
• Lead technical direction across multiple engineering teams by defining architectural patterns, technical standards, and best practices.
• Drive end-to-end execution of complex features and systems, from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and live-site support.
• Solve ambiguous and complex technical problems, making informed tradeoffs across quality, performance, cost, and time-to-market.
• Ensure security, privacy, compliance, and accessibility are built into system designs and implementations.
• Mentor and influence engineers, raising the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management, Design, and other partners to translate product requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Use data, telemetry, and experimentation to guide technical decisions and continuously improve system quality and customer experience.
• Contribute to long-term technical strategy, identifying opportunities for platform reuse, simplification, and modernization.
  
  
  

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 13+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• 6+ years experience in designing and implementing large-scale distributed infrastructure or platform systems.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience developing infrastructure services.
• Proficient technical design, analytical, and debugging abilities.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Exposure to Data Governance and Data Security domain.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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