24 hours ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build distributed services that improve operating-system, firmware, security, and patch freshness across Microsoft 365 infrastructure.
- Develop telemetry, analytics, and reporting platforms for fleet compliance, update readiness, vulnerability exposure, firmware health, and remediation progress.
- Build intelligent detection, prioritization, forecasting, and remediation services for infrastructure security and compliance risks.
- Create safe automation for operating-system updates, firmware upgrades, security patch deployment, configuration enforcement, and remediation orchestration.
- Partner with security, hardware, firmware, operating-system, and infrastructure teams to improve fleet health and reduce exposure.
- Build AI-assisted tools for investigating patching failures, firmware issues, configuration drift, vulnerability exposure, and live-site incidents.
- Improve operational safety through staged rollouts, health gates, rollback mechanisms, policy enforcement, and observability.
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, design discussions, and live-site operations.
- Mentor engineers and drive projects from concept through production deployment, measurement, and operational ownership.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Proficiency with one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
- In-depth knowledge of operating-system internals, especially Windows, with practical Linux experience involving kernels, drivers, system services, networking stacks, crash dumps, and performance issues.
- Experience collecting, correlating, and analyzing diagnostic data at scale and building or using pipelines such as Kusto/Azure Data Explorer.
- Experience diagnosing OS crash dumps, driver failures, TCP/IP and DNS networking issues, packet captures, and system-performance problems using tools such as WinDbg, Windows Performance Analyzer, and ETW.
- Tier 2 or Tier 3 United States Government clearance to work in secure Microsoft cloud environments.
- Experience with security patching, vulnerability management, compliance reporting, configuration management, secure infrastructure operations, and fleet-wide automation.
- Experience applying data science, statistics, forecasting, anomaly detection, or machine learning to infrastructure health or operational-risk problems.
- Experience developing AI-powered operational tools, investigation assistants, or agent-based solutions.
- Ability to independently drive complex technical projects through production deployment and influence across teams and organizations.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree with 6+ years of experience or a bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- The role is based in Redmond, Washington and requires working in the office at least 3 days per week.
- The position may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
About Microsoft
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