Software Engineer II

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’s mission is to deliver a market leading solution for enterprise data management, discovery, understanding, and access. The customer personas served by Purview Data Governance include the enterprise data office, enterprise-wide data owners and data stewards, and enterprise-wide data consumers across all organizational functions. We are seeking a passionate and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join us in our mission of building a market-leading SaaS product for enterprise data governance for our customers. The ideal candidate will embody customer obsession, foster a culture of innovation, champion collaboration, thrive in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment, and demonstrate a strong sense of personal drive, ownership and accountability.

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.

Required Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

• 1+ years of experience in single page web app UX development in TypeScript/JavaScript, React/Redux/Angular, HTML5, CSS3, and AJAX/REST API/JSON handling.

Other Requirements:

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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Desire to become an expert in the practice of modern data governance
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Scala,
• • OR equivalent experience, and 3+ years hands on experience in middle-tier and backend infrastructure on Azure delivering modern distributed applications.
• Experience implementing end-user products → Customer-facing applications, not just internal tools or backend services.
• Experience with SDKs & UI Controls → Custom UI component libraries, reusable SDKs for third-party developers, or plugin-based architectures.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $127,200 - $208,800 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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Drives a customer-first, live site-first, design-first, and agile team culture to develop, secure and operate cloud services at high scale, throughput, and resilience. Leads and implements design decisions to champion and incorporate scalability, cost optimization, and observability. Develops and maintains a comprehensive architecture and execution plan for the long term.

• Creates clarity and leads the definition of priorities and planning of engineering deliverables.
• Demonstrates a strong dedication to achieving high quality results, in line with customer focus and project timelines.
• Tackles challenges posed by problems with unclear solutions, timelines, and constraints. Your resilience and resourcefulness will be key in driving the team towards innovative and impactful outcomes.
• Facilitates alignment within and across all the partner teams on technology and design decisions.
• Fosters a culture of partnership, respect, and inclusion working within and across teams, roles, and geography.
• Offers expert technical advice to the leadership team.
• Mentors and grows other engineers.