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Sr. Software Engineer

Microsoft


Job Location:

Redmond, WA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 119800 - 234700
Posted: 5 October 2026 (14 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 2 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Software Engineering

Job Summary

Overview

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 Microsofts 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 doing so we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Data Privacy has never been more top of mind than it is today. Governments around the world are passing new privacy legislation at a fast pace and companies are investing in many aspects of data compliance to meet these new regulations.

There is a significant opportunity here to empower every company to deliver data privacy solutions that meet these regulations and that build customer trust. If you are looking for an opportunity to move the needle on data privacy then the Microsoft Security Platform Data Governance and Privacy (SPDGP) team is the right place for you. Within SPDGP the Data Privacy Platform (DPP) team has been providing internal data privacy products for all Microsoft since 2018 operating these products at high scale and availability. We build reliable highly scalable highly performing and distributed systems for scanning cataloging classification and DSR processing. Our job is to provide privacy infrastructure to produce meaningful insights about compliance and to create understandable actions that can be taken to improve. We are leveraging this experience to create new data privacy products to benefit Microsoft and later all our is a steady stream of new requirements for both our internal and external partners that is creating exciting opportunities to work at high scale impact and visibility.

As a Sr. Software Engineer focused on security you will develop software tools and code to be used in support of design infrastructure and technology platforms as well as commercial or end-user applications. You will help ensure the software tools and code meets the highest standards for security. You will partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature and consider a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. You will collaborate with others to create a clear and articulated plan for testing assuring quality of solutions while applying knowledge of debugging tools logs telemetry and other methods to proactively flag issues. This opportunity will allow you to learn about customer scaling requirements and the application of best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations while ensuring the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security privacy safety and accessibility. You will look for opportunities to raise the security bar as you apply Microsofts security policies and best practices. Microsofts mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect integrity and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.



Responsibilities
  • Leads by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable code.
  • Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents.
  • For areas of dependency and overlap with other teams or team members drives coordination and communicates across teams and resolves conflicts between teams.
  • Leads discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture.

  • Drive system and service integration: Collaborate across teams to influence architecture and ensure seamless integration between systems and services.
  • Lead Innovation through experimentation: Initiate and guide experiments to evaluate new technologies and determine best-fit solutions.
  • Develop scalable high-quality solutions: Build software that is reliable maintainable and scalable to meet evolving business needs.
  • Embed operational excellence: Incorporate live site readiness monitoring and incident response into the development lifecycle.
  • Promote engineering best practices: Advocate for clean code modern development standards and continuous improvement in engineering processes.
  • Enhance developer productivity: Improve developer tools and automation to streamline workflows and boost team efficiency.

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Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

  • Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically this position supports United States federal state and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement and as a condition of employment the successful candidates citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.
  • 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.

Additional or preferred qualifications
  • Masters 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 C# Java JavaScript or Python
    • OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Recent working experience with backend engineering and software deployment.
  • Experience in high-security regulated or cloud environments.

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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119800 - $234700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160200 - $261000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.



Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.


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