Software Engineer - Security, Multiple Locations

Microsoft Corporation; Redmond (WA); Remote; USD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Software Engineer focused on security. In this dynamic role, you will develop and implement secure and maintainable code for various products and services. Your expertise will help ensure that software meets the highest security standards while collaborating with stakeholders to define feature requirements. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the safety and reliability of Microsoft’s technology platforms, all while working in a supportive environment that values your growth and innovation. If you are passionate about security and eager to make a real impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated interest in security and secure coding standards.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders and enhance design.

Responsibilities

• Review and break down work items into tasks with stakeholder collaboration.
• Collaborate on quality assurance plans and integrate automation into testing.

Skills

Interest in Security

Tools

Debugging Tools

Telemetry Tools

Job description

Software Engineer - Security, Multiple Locations

Redmond, Washington, United States

Date posted: Jan 01, 2025

Job number: 1798165

Work site: Up to 100% work from home

Travel: 0-25 %

Role type: Software Engineering

Employment type: Full-Time

Overview

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential - and excitement for the journey ahead.

As a Software Engineer focused on security, you will develop software, tools, and code to be used in support of design, infrastructure, and technology platforms as well as commercial or end-user applications. You will help ensure the software, tools, and code meet the highest standards for security. This opportunity will allow you to create and implement secure and maintainable code for a product, service, or feature. You will partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature and consider various feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. You will collaborate with others to create a clear and articulated plan for testing, assuring quality of solutions, while applying knowledge of debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively flag issues. You will look for opportunities to raise the security bar as you apply Microsoft’s security policies and best practices.

Please note this application is only for roles based in our Redmond, Washington office and/or roles that are not tied to a specific Microsoft office location.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated interest in security.

Responsibilities

• Learns to review and break down work items into tasks with stakeholder collaboration, provides estimations, and escalates delays, while also supporting feature deployments to customers, considering user and service impacts, and adhering to best deployment practices for safety.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders to define feature requirements, integrates feedback to enhance design, and establishes feedback loops for continuous improvement based on customer metrics.
• Keeps abreast of security technologies and emerging security best practices to apply continuous secure improvements.
• Learns and applies secure coding standards and best practices through code reviews, developing secure, maintainable, and extensible code with guidance. Utilizes debugging and security tools to proactively and reactively address issues in product features, ensuring security, code quality, and reliability.
• Supports the identification of dependencies and designs documentation for product features, learns about system interactions and back-end dependencies, and contributes to architectural processes under guidance. Produces code to test hypotheses for technical solutions and assist with technical validation efforts. Collaborates on quality assurance plans, augments test cases, and integrates automation into testing, while understanding the implications of security and compliance in system architecture.
• Contributes to data analysis and feedback integration for product engineering decisions, acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for monitoring and restoring system functionality within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Participates in live service operations and supports telemetry data integration for system behavior insights, with a focus on performance, reliability, and safety.
• Develops and applies best practices for reliable and secure code building, understands global and local regulations and customer scaling requirements, and supports communication with key partners across Microsoft for user experience enhancement and partner needs.
• Ensures compliance with security, privacy, safety, and accessibility standards, leverages developer tools for code creation and debugging, contributes to automation in production and deployment, and proactively seeks knowledge to improve product security, availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance at scale.
• Understands and applies Microsoft’s security policies and best practices to ensure systems meet our security and trust commitments to our customers.