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. 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 Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) tracks nation state and criminal actors to protect Microsoft and Microsoft's customers. The actors we track are often highly technical and maintain good operational security. Tracking actors like this requires persistence and ingenuity and is done by combining the work of intelligence analysts, reverse engineers, developers and data scientists.

MSTIC provides unique insight on threats and is responsible for delivering timely and actionable threat intelligence across our products and services. Within MSTIC, Signals Engineering’s mission is to enhance research, detection and protection against threats to Microsoft & customers by codifying MSTIC’s analytical expertise at-scale, generating signals to extend our global threat coverage and advanced collaboration with Microsoft product, research and defender teams.

We are looking for an innovative Principal Software Engineer who understands the threat landscape and can translate security insights from our analysts into real-world code processing a range of threat intelligence-related signals. We are a fast-paced team with talented engineers.

In this role, you will gather requirements, lead the design and implementation of systems and services responsible for secure and efficient data sharing at scale. You will work closely with analysts and other security researchers to deliver intelligence-focused solutions providing additional data, artefacts, and analysis to enable our adversary pursuit mission.

Responsibilities

• Accelerate our analysts’ insights by building innovative analysis tooling running at cloud scale.

• Architect and 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.

• Provide technical leadership across features, projects, service fundamentals, and tools

• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of our services while also sharing knowledge with other engineers

• Partner across multiple product groups to apply subject-matter expertise in secure systems design practices, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, dependencies at scale, and the code that defines infrastructures.

• Work across multiple teams in Microsoft, create clarity, decompose complex problems in smaller manageable workstreams, and harness the energy of the team to solve them.

• Be a subject matter expert and work towards developing a deeper understanding of the business problems solved by our team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.

• Advanced technical experience with skills in a mix of C/C++, C# and scripting languages: (Python/PowerShell/JavaScript) OR equivalent experience.

• Deep knowledge of cloud development using Azure, AWS, or GCP.

• Experienced with Kubernetes, Linux, or containers.

• Proficient with data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.

• Experience with DevOps tools and practices, such as Git, CI/CD, testing, and monitoring.

• Proven experience solving and decomposing complex problems, driving technical designs, implementing, validating, and delivering features to production.

• Curiosity and passion for problem solving; ability to learn new skills quickly and apply them to real world problems

Preferred qualifications:

• Knowledge of post-breach compromise domain – including methods for reconnaissance, persistence, lateral movement and data exfiltration across both on-premises and cloud environments.

• Big data, data pipelines and visualisation Azure DevOps or similar cloud-based development experience

• Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern distributed software design patterns and cloud systems architecture, including microservices, containers, load-balancing, queuing, caching.

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:

This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest) .

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .