Senior Software Engineer Manager - CTJ - TS - Microsoft Corporation

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. You will be building and delivering cloud solutions to meet the scale that few companies in the industry are required to support. Leveraging state-of-the-art technologies, you will be instrumental in delivering holistic protection within highly sensitive and secure government environments. The Microsoft Defender team is responsible for delivering a constantly evolving set of services and solutions to meet the challenging landscape of our ever-evolving attackers. We're looking for a **Senior Software Engineer Manager** to lead a combined SWE/SRE (DevOps) team which provides leadership, direction, and accountability for cloud design, service architecture, engineering infrastructure, and data platform development. You will help conduct business reviews and operate our production services. Efficient collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services and systems are highly stable, meet performance Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users. The Microsoft Defender team is responsible for delivering a constantly evolving set of services and solutions to meet the challenging landscape of our ever evolving attackers. **By applying to this position, you are applying to multiple career stages.** Microsoft's 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 andcollaborate 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** The team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, Cloud design, Infrastructure development and end to end implementation for our Sovereign and Government Clouds. As a Senior Software Engineer Manager, you will work across team boundaries to determine and develop architectural approaches and infrastructure solutions, conduct business reviews, operate our production services, and deliver engineering contributions across these services. Collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users. Core Responsibilities: + Build and improve services to be scalable and highly reliable. + Lead efforts to deliver and improve engineering systems and practices to deliver services in complex cloud environments. + Design and automate service scale features and customer requirements. + Design and implement improvements to our security posture and compliance automation. + Be part of and provide technical leadership for a Dev-Ops team that handles and remediates customer issues. + Collaborate across team boundaries to meet the engineering goals in a unified manner + Contribute to significantly improving the security rigor of our system to be best-in-world. + Lead the design and implementation of new features as well as add functionality to existing systems. + Investigate pre-production and production issues, implement, and deploy fixes. + Participate in an on-call rotation (typically 24/7 for one week every 6-8 weeks) within a secure facility. + Being enthusiastic, self-motivated, and a great collaborator + Being passionate about making customers successful + Embody our culture and values You are highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast paced, highly technical environment. You are customer focus and understand the importance of Live Site. Have demonstrated ability to establish and manage relationships across organizational boundaries. Proven experience dealing with large scale data architecture, operational architecture and or network Architecture. Proven experience creating distributed systems tools of high complexity. You will be responsible for working with various disciplines; Engineers, Researchers, Data Scientists; to address customers' needs and create new scenarios and features that provide customer value. **Qualifications** **Required/Minimum Qualifications:** + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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. + 4 years of software development experience in C#, Java, Scala, C++, Go, Python, or similar languages. + 5+ years of Windows / Linux hands on system experiences **Other Requirements:** Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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: + Candidates must have an active TS and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph) or have an active TS/SCI and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination. + **Clearance Verification** : This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment. + **Microsoft Cloud Background Check** : This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter + **Citizenship & Citizenship Verification** : This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance **Additional or Preferred Qualifications:** + Experience with Kubernetes, and the Kubernetes satellite technologies + Proven experience with building and supporting large-scale production services, including logging, monitoring, alerting, and measuring reliability and availability. + Effective mentoring skills: demonstrated ability to coach less experienced team members, ability to help team members grow technically and professionally. + Understanding and experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub tooling and CI/CD concepts and Git. + Data mining or data science experiences utilizing Big Data and\or relational database technologies. + Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Software Engineers, Program Managers, Security Researchers, and Data Scientists + Development experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure + Support a 24x7 live site support model for the services the team owns. Software Engineering M4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 per year. Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 per year. 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 Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis. 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) .