Senior Software Platform Engineer

Team Description –

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.

We are now extending our security stack with the goal of supporting and empowering nations, governments, and related organizations in protecting their country's estates and safeguarding critical assets at great scales. This effort aims to protect the well-being of their citizens against cyber threats and attacks. The Defender suite leverages the robust Microsoft security portfolio to automatically analyze threat data across domains, building a complete picture of each attack in a situational awareness dashboard.

Our teams are dedicated to building cutting-edge Cyber Defense solutions, leveraging state-of-the-art cloud technologies, big data, AI, and modern UX platforms to deliver unparalleled value to our customers.

Responsibilities

You will take a pivotal role in defining and driving the foundational infrastructure that powers the entire security group. You’ll be responsible for owning and evolving our Kubernetes-based infrastructure, driving group-wide scalability, reliability, and developer productivity. This is a strategic, high-impact role that operates across multiple teams and products.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

Kubernetes Cluster Ownership:

Own the architecture, availability, security, and lifecycle of our Kubernetes clusters across environments. Drive best practices for cluster configuration, multi-tenancy, resource governance, and observability.

Scalability & Performance Leadership

Proactively identify and remove bottlenecks in our infrastructure and development workflows. Lead initiatives to optimize cost, performance, and operational efficiency across the group.

Developer Experience & Productivity

Build and advocate for robust platform tools, automation, and CI/CD solutions that enhance the velocity, safety, and satisfaction of engineering teams across the group.

Security & Compliance Foundations

Work closely with product security and operations to embed secure defaults, policy enforcement, and compliance automation into the platform layer.

Observability & Reliability

Champion observability across services by standardizing logging, metrics, and tracing. Establish and enforce SLOs and playbooks that improve our incident response and service reliability posture.

Mentorship & Culture Leadership

Foster a culture of platform ownership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. Mentor engineers across the group, and act as a force multiplier by sharing knowledge and driving reusable solutions.

Qualifications

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, Software and Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• You have at least 8+ years of professional experience as a software engineer (SWE) or site reliability engineer (SRE) building large-scale systems.
• You have at least 4+ years of experience working on cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
• You are experience with distributed computing platforms for high-scale systems and massive amounts of data using Kubernetes.
• You have working experience in Java (or equivalent).
• You have experience with continuous integration and deployment tools. 
• Ability to learn and use new technologies.
• Ability to understand complex distributed systems and to know your way around them.
  
  

Other Requirements

• Team player with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and mentor junior engineers.
• Demonstrate success dealing with ambiguous “unsolved” problems - and the ability to independently make solid progress by breaking new ground
  
  

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