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The Microsoft Purview - Data Security Agents team comprises of talented engineers dedicated to developing innovative software Agents using cutting-edge technologies such as Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs), Large Language Models (LLM), and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Our mission is to empower customers to harness the power of AI and GPTs to meet their digital data security and compliance needs, more efficiently. As a large-scale cloud service, we leverage state-of-the-art Azure technology to deliver robust, reliable, and scalable solutions. Our team collaborates closely, employing innovative technologies and methodologies to streamline workflows and enhance productivity. We prioritize quality, security, and privacy, ensuring that every feature meets the highest standards. We look forward to leading the transformation in how organizations safeguard and manage their data.

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Responsibilities

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer with a strong technical background, experience and passion for designing, developing, and deploying high-scale, high-throughput, and highly performant multi-tenant services. The ideal candidate will have the ability to lead efforts and discussions for the architecture of aspects of products/solutions. Independently creates and mentors others for a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring the quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests. Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. Collaborate effectively with various partner teams, including UX designers, product owners, data scientists, and other engineering teams. They should be adept at understanding requirements, identifying and addressing ambiguities, and translating them into well-implemented, high-quality code that ensures customer success at cloud scale.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead by example and mentor team members to produce extensible, maintainable, and high-quality code. Optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to enhance performance and maintainability.

• Identify and implement best practices and coding patterns, providing deep expertise in coding and validation strategies. Utilize debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively and reactively resolve issues.

• Oversee the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms. Facilitate coordination and communication across teams to resolve conflicts and ensure security and performance.

• Lead architectural discussions, create proposals, and oversee the testing of hypotheses and proposed solutions. Mentor team members in testing and quality assurance, defining success criteria for test outcomes.

• Enhance, reuse, and identify new software developer tools to support programs and applications. Stay current with new trends, technical solutions, and patterns to improve product performance and consistency.

• Ensure adherence to processes that achieve high standards of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility. Lead product development and scaling to meet customer requirements and performance expectations.

• Oversee the implementation and deployment of solutions, optimizing deployments to meet business objectives. Drive experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes and improvements. Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and mentor other engineers. Integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior and drive sustaining feedback loops.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ yearstechnical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

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 8+ 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 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

• • Having knowledge or experience in machine learning and data science projects is highly advantageous

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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 March 17, 2025.

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