Sr. Software Engineer

Microsoft
Atlanta, GA, United States
6 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
4 years minimum
Compensation
$119,800.0 - $234,700.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Clean Code Principles C (Programming Language) Java (Programming Language) JavaScript (Programming Language) Microsoft Online Services C Sharp (Programming Language) C++ (Programming Language) Software Design Documents Programming Tools Python (Programming Language) Software Deployment Software Engineering
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Cloud Platform System Information Technology

Job description

  • Leads by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable code.
  • Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents.
  • For areas of dependency and overlap with other teams or team members, drives coordination and communicates across teams and resolves conflicts between teams.
  • Leads discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture.

  • 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.

Requirements

Required/minimum qualifications:

  • 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.

Other Requirements:

  • Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.
  • 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., * 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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, 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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
  • Recent working experience with backend engineering and software deployment.
  • Experience in high-security, regulated, or cloud environments.

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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

About the company

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. Data Privacy has never been more top of mind than it is today. Governments around the world are passing new privacy legislation at a fast pace, and companies are investing in many aspects of data compliance to meet these new regulations.

There is a significant opportunity here to empower every company to deliver data privacy solutions that meet these regulations and that build customer trust. If you are looking for an opportunity to move the needle on data privacy, then the Microsoft Security Platform, Data Governance and Privacy (SPDGP) team is the right place for you. Within SPDGP, the Data Privacy Platform (DPP) team has been providing internal data privacy products for all Microsoft since 2018, operating these products at high scale and availability. We build reliable, highly scalable, highly performing, and distributed systems for scanning, cataloging, classification, and DSR processing. Our job is to provide privacy infrastructure, to produce meaningful insights about compliance, and to create understandable actions that can be taken to improve. We are leveraging this experience to create new data privacy products to benefit Microsoft and later all our customers.There is a steady stream of new requirements for both our internal and external partners that is creating exciting opportunities to work at high scale, impact, and visibility.

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