Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - Office

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
United States , Redmond

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Office Suite is continuously evolving, reaching billions of customers that rely on robust and secure software, features, and services. The Threat Protection team builds security capabilities and mitigations to help our customers get and stay protected. We push the boundaries for what is possible in creating solutions that span platforms, clients, servers, and services while ensuring our core security features inside Office products are reliable, performant, and scalable.

Job Responsibility:

Discovery of Solutions/Identifying Mitigations - Learns of or discovers new security issues within areas of responsibility, including through the Secure Future Initiative
ability to come up to speed on new threats and mitigations without direction
discovers new information to gain context
decomposes work for collaboration
identifies and creates systematic solutions
identifies gaps in existing or new solutions
successfully operates in uncertain, challenging, and novel environments
and leverages expertise to appropriately drive solutions
Solution Engineering - Architects solutions related to specific kinds of security issues
identifies and defines high impact projects and executes cross-company
defines policies, practices, and procedures
weighs business concerns with technical implementation concerns when devising solutions
defines success criteria
prioritizes projects
creates virtual teams to solve problems at scale
and provides review and feedback of implementation
Communication/Influence - Helps to make connections and assist in developing agreements among groups to clarify priorities, dependencies, and provide coordination across groups
Advocates for key issues and mitigations to partners and upper management
Autonomously drives coordination and collaboration across groups
Creates and advocates for broadly applicable solutions
Mentors and coaches peers on new approaches and best practices
Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios
Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products
Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items
Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions
Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers

Requirements:

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++, Rust, C#, Java, JavaScript, Typescript or Python OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to have:

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust C#, Java, JavaScript, Typescript or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust, C#, Java, JavaScript, Typescript or Python OR equivalent experience
4+ years experience designing, implementing, shipping and deploying large-scale solutions, and software development lifecycle
4+ years of experience in C/C++, Rust, C# or similar programming language
including code reviews and code inspection of complex software
Understanding of security vulnerabilities and mitigations across platforms, applications, or services
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles
Experience with DevOps tools and practices, such as Git, CI/CD, testing, and monitoring
Excellent communication, collaboration, ability to deal with ambiguity, and problem-solving skills
Passion for learning new technologies and skills
Customer focus and passion for improving engineering efficiency

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 04, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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