Are you interested in working for on cutting-edge cloud security products? Would you like to be part of one of the world’s most advanced cyber-security solutions and protect millions of computers from thousands of active attack attempts every month? Look no further than the Microsoft Defender engineering team. Defender is looking for a Software Engineer to join our team. You will be building and delivering cloud solutions to meet the scale that few companies in the industry are required to support. Leveraging state-of-the-art technologies, you will be instrumental in delivering holistic protection within highly sensitive and secure government environments. The Microsoft Defender team is responsible for delivering a constantly evolving set of services and solutions to meet the challenging landscape of our ever-evolving attackers.
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
Other Requirements:
Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:
- Candidates must have an active Top Secret (TS) security clearance and be willing to upgrade to a Top Secret with Secret Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) with Full Scope Polygraph (FSP) or have an active TS/SCI and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with FSP). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI with FSP through follow-on investigations.
- Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance.
Preferred/Additional Qualifications:
- Understanding and experience with CI/CD concepts and Git.
- Experience debugging issues ranging from the operating system, application, and all the way to the cloud.
- Experienced in solving operational issues in a scalable way.
- Ability to thrive with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment.
- Support a 24x7 live site support model for the services the team owns.
- Kubernetes and the Kubernetes satellite technologies.
- Some experience with building and supporting large-scale production services, including logging, monitoring, alerting, and measuring reliability and availability.
- Proficient in at least one scripting language but knows when to move solutions into managed code.
- Azure DevOps and GitHub tooling.
- Demonstrated communication skills and ability to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Software Engineers, Program Managers, Security Researchers, and Data Scientists.
Core Responsibilities:
Build and improve services to be scalable and highly reliable. Help deliver and improve engineering systems and practices to deliver services in complex cloud environments. Contribute to design and automate service scale features and customer requirements. Investigate pre-production and production issues, implement, and deploy fixes. Participate in an on-call rotation (typically 24/7 for one week every 6-8 weeks) within a secure facility.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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