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. Our team in security org is building a software as a service (SaaS) to enable organizations of all sizes to discover, manage and govern their data on-premises and multi-cloud. It is a fully managed, globally available, serverless platform for building security, governance, compliance, and privacy applications quickly, cost-effectively, and at unlimited scale. The platform provides a more holistic understanding of the hybrid data estate, which is always kept up to date with automated data discovery and sensitive data classification.

In addition to empowering knowledge workers, this understanding, along with insights from sensitivity, business context, and relationships between data assets is also being used by teams working under the Chief Data Officers (CDO), the Chief Information and Security Officers (CIO and CISO) and the Chief Risk and Compliance Officers (CRO and CCO) to govern, protect, and manage data more effectively. We are looking for a Software Engineer II to build next generation security data platform and partner with several teams in Microsoft Security and Azure organization to make architectural decisions.

Join the transformative journey, where we are revolutionizing security, governance, and compliance solutions across Microsoft and other cloud environments. As a Software Engineer II on our Cloud Ecosystem Security Team, you will develop of core services that form the foundation of the platform. This platform empowers applications focused on security, governance, and compliance, providing unified experience for managing data across multiple clouds.

This position is located at our Microsoft office in Redmond, Washington. Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to relocate or reside within 50 miles of the field location. 

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.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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.
• 2+ years of experience with distributed data processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Kafka, Flink, or similar).
• 1+ years of experience designing and building solutions using microservices architecture.

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• OR equivalent experience.

• Experience working with or building graph-based systems (e.g., knowledge graphs, graph databases like Neo4j or Amazon Neptune).
• Experience with AI agents or intelligent systems, including their design, orchestration, or integration into larger platforms.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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   

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 25, 2025.

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As a Software Engineer II, you will:

• Define and design Security Persona Scenarios: disambiguate user personas and security use cases to design targeted, effective solutions.
• Drive system and service integration: Collaborate across teams to influence architecture and ensure seamless integration between systems and services.
• Lead Innovation through experimentation: Initiate and guide experiments to evaluate new technologies and determine best-fit solutions.
• Develop scalable, high-quality solutions: Build software that is reliable, maintainable, and scalable to meet evolving business needs.
• Embed operational excellence: Incorporate live site readiness, monitoring, and incident response into the development lifecycle.
• Promote engineering best practices: Advocate for clean code, modern development standards, and continuous improvement in engineering processes.
• Enhance developer productivity: Improve developer tools and automation to streamline workflows and boost team efficiency.