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Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WA$119.8k - $234.7kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Security-focused role at Microsoft, building large scale distributed networking security software services with emphasis on AI enhancements, modern software engineering practices, reliability, testability, and data-driven customer/value focus within Microsoft Security.

Responsibilities

  • Work with the Product and Engineering team members to design and develop large scale distributed networking security software services and solutions.
  • Leverage AI to build advanced security capabilities and boost engineering productivity.
  • Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews.
  • System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.
  • Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
  • Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
  • Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
  • Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.
  • Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.
  • Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Golang, or Rust. OR equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years of familiarity with core networking protocols and technologies (HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP, DNS. etc.).
  • 6+ years of experience with Windows based operating systems internals and open-source contributions.

Skills

Required:Programming languages (C, C++, Golang, Rust)Networking

Benefits

  • 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
Last updated Jul 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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