Job Description

The Microsoft Security organization's mission of making the world a safer place has never been more important. As threats become more frequent and sophisticated, we drive improvements in our security products that keep our customers safe. Security is one of the fastest growing, collaborative, fun teams with a startup mindset within Microsoft.


The Microsoft Threat Intelligence offers comprehensive threat intelligence mechanisms to protect organisations from large threat actors.


We are looking for a talented and motivated Principal software engineer to join our team and help us design, develop, and deliver cutting-edge products that enable our customers to enable Threat Intelligence for Microsoft Defender suite.


Our team has people from a wide variety of backgrounds, previous work histories, and life experiences, and we are eager to maintain and grow that diversity. We are passionate about learning on the job, collaborating with other teams, and being customer obsessed. Come join us if you are passionate about positively impacting over a billion users from all walks of life through easy-to-use cyber security products.

Responsibilities

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As a Principal Software Engineer in our team, your responsibilities will include designing, coding, implementing, testing, and deploying cloud services pipelines using Azure technologies.

The services that you architect and build must be durable across multiple releases, optimized and meet all the expectations of highly scalable, available, and reliable.

Additionally, you will collaborate with other engineering teams, product managers, and security researchers to deliver features and enhancements that meet customer needs and expectations.

The collaborations will be across geographies as well as we have teams in Israel and Redmond as well. You will also follow engineering best practices and ensure code quality, performance, security, and maintainability, while continuously learning new technologies and frameworks and applying them to provide thought leadership and solve challenging problems.

Qualifications

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13+ years of experience as a software engineer working on large scale software and a proven track record of having shipped commercially successful software products & services. Proven track record architecting and building performant, scalable, reliable, distributed cloud services and driving cost & operational efficiency. Passion for driving engineering excellence, optimization and efficiency initiatives. Exceptional team collaboration capabilities while working with leadrers and mentoring the juniors in the group. Experience with multiple aspects of Software Development not limited to Design, Frontend, Backend, Infrastructure, Security, Privacy, Operations/maintenance etc. Proficiency in C# (.NET Core) and Python. Strong problem-solving and debugging skills and ability to work in a fast-paced and agile environment. Excellent communication and collaboration skills and ability to work effectively in a diverse cross geo team. Experience working with Kubernetes and Containers. Experience with databases (SQL, MongoDB, Cosmos DB, Redis, Azure Data Explorer). Experience in product execution from inception to production. Experience in designing, building, and operating large-scale resilient distributed systems. Experience/familiarity with application and system monitoring systems. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Curiosity and willingness to learn, share and improve. Passion for new capabilities in product and customer satisfaction. Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science



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