4 days ago
Base Salary
$166k - $331k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own complex, high-impact projects from customer and business problem definition through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, adoption, and live-site operations.
- Write substantial production code, lead critical component implementation, solve complex engineering problems, and maintain deep knowledge of the architecture and codebase.
- Own the architecture and long-term technical direction of critical data security platform areas across multiple services and engineering teams.
- Lead cross-team technical alignment, including designs, interfaces, dependency contracts, implementation plans, prioritization, and production readiness.
- Drive reliability, security, privacy, automated testing, telemetry, safe deployment and rollback, threat modeling, security controls, and continuous operational improvement.
- Raise engineering effectiveness through design and code reviews, mentoring, engineering excellence, responsible AI-native practices, and technical direction.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: master's degree with 12+ years of experience, or bachelor's degree with 15+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems, including production ownership, automated testing, and CI/CD practices.
- 5+ years leading technical architecture across multiple engineering teams or organizations and defining shared technical contracts, standards, or patterns.
- Experience designing secure, latency-sensitive policy evaluation, authorization, or access-control systems, with knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding.
- Experience building LLM and generative AI applications involving agent orchestration, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning, or model evaluation.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; additional benefits and pay information is provided through Microsoft's careers site.
- The position is open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
- A Microsoft Cloud Background Check is required upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
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About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.