Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft · United States · $119,800 - $234,700 USD · Posted 2026-08-27

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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 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.

Are you passionate about building large-scale technology to solve some of today’s most complex security challenges? Join Microsoft Security and help build a new, high-performance data platform designed to give organizations greater visibility and control across their digital environments.

Our team is developing an exabyte-scale security data platform that processes data across billions of streams, files, tables, and reports. The platform brings together security data from across on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments, helping organizations discover and understand their digital assets, integrate and normalize data from disparate sources, and more effectively address critical security and governance needs.

Using advanced graph technologies, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, we are building capabilities that help customers identify patterns, uncover threats, understand relationships across their digital estate, and make informed security decisions at scale.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and delivering this platform from the ground up. You will tackle complex distributed systems and data challenges, work with cutting-edge technologies, and collaborate across teams to build scalable solutions that help organizations better understand and secure their digital environments.

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, 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

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

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:

Preferred Qualifications:

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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 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

This 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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