**Overview** Are you interested in working for one of the most exciting and fast-growing teams in Microsoft? Then look at the Microsoft Security Engineering team. You will be building cloud solutions in order to meet scales that few companies in the industry are required to support. Leveraging state of the art technologies, you will be instrumental in delivering holistic protection to a user base of tens of thousands of government organizations, enterprises, and SMB businesses around the globe. The Microsoft Protection & SOC team is responsible for delivering a constantly evolving set of services and solutions to meet the challenging landscape of our ever-evolving attackers. This is a Research Efficiency Platform team which provides leadership, direction, and accountability for Security Researchers tools and platforms, CICD, AI/ML, Virtualization and infrastructure, and secured development standards. You will help conduct business reviews and operate our production services. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services and systems are highly stable, performant, and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users. **Responsibilities** As a Senior Software Engineer, you would be responsible for: + Defining well thought out design patterns and code with an emphasis on quality, simplicity, maintainability, and performance Engineering systems. + Driving efficiencies through software improvement and root cause analysis resulting in service delivery, maturity, and scalability. + Proactively identifying and reducing issues through design, testing, and implementation of software-based solutions + Identify opportunities and drive the design and implementation of end-to-end telemetry, alerting, self-healing, and automation capabilities to improve service health, manageability, and reliability. + Mentor junior engineers on coding and design best practices. + You will be responsible for working with various disciplines; to address customers’ needs and create new scenarios and features that provide customer value. **Qualifications** + Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, SQL, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. + Significant development experience using common object-oriented or functional languages such as C#, Python, or Java + 5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP + Strong hands-on understanding and experience with CI\CD tools, practices and source control + 5+ years of a mix of coding/testing/design/Integration experience + Ability to thrive with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment. + Exceptional Leadership skills: Sound problem resolution, judgment, negotiating and decision-making skills. + Support a 24x7 live site support model for the services the team owns. 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. (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html)