Senior Software Engineer - Attack Disruption Team - MTP

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Overview

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.

The Microsoft 365 Defender suite leverages the Microsoft 365 security portfolio - including Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Office, Cloud Apps, Identity and IoT/OT, as well as Microsoft Sentinel and XDR - to automatically analyze threat data across domains, building a complete picture of each attack in a single dashboard to monitor, hunt, detect and remediate threats. With this breadth and depth of clarity defenders can now focus on critical threats and hunt for sophisticated breaches, trusting that the powerful automation in Microsoft's security products detects and stops attacks anywhere in the cyber-attack kill chains and returns the organization to a secure state.

We use state of the art cloud technologies, big data solutions, AI at hyper scale and modern UX platforms to deliver the highest value for our customers.

If you're passionate about cyber security like us, and if you live and love data, want to make the world a safer place for millions of customers, love creating products for and with customers and are a team player - come join us.

Our team values diversity of all types in candidates for our roles and we strive to hire people with different experiences and perspectives into our team. To that end, we know that no candidate has every desired skill and experience, but all of us together makes our team strong. 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.

The Attack Disruption team in AT&P (Acute Threat Protection) owns the end-to-end protection strategy of MDE (Microsoft Defender for Endpoint) customers on the organization level, providing a layered approach to active protection through a rapid and automatic response capability preventing threats from spreading, mitigating an ongoing attack and restoring customer premises to a healthy state while preventing an attack from repeating.

Our team is versatile and produces high quality solutions involving creative client and cloud engineering with deep understanding of system internals, we're looking for an experienced engineer with a growth mindset who is excited by new and complex challenges and can flourish in a high-octane team of professionals.

Qualifications

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, Software and Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• Proven experience in cloud/backend development OR working experience in client development with a preference to a versatile experience (client & cloud).
• 6+ years of professional experience as a software engineer building large-scale systems.
• Passionate and collaborative team player with a drive to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking capabilities.
• Clear communication skills and demonstrated customer empathy.
• Ability and passion to learn and use new technologies.
  
  

Desired Skills

• Background in endpoint security and cloud-based applications. 
• Working knowledge of system internals.
• Experience with distributed computing platforms for high-scale systems and massive amounts of data (Kubernetes preferred).
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment tools (ADO preferred). 
  
  

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Responsibilities

As an engineer on our team, you will be working on cutting edge technologies to deliver exciting new features that impact and protect millions of users, with cross-team and cross-discipline collaboration (engineering, PM, design, research and data science). You will work closely with experienced engineers and be part of an agile and fast-moving development team - and will have a role in mentoring your more junior peers and helping them succeed. You will be expected to apply a critical view of our infrastructure, technologies and development process, proactively pushing to improve the product and our group.