Principal Software Engineer - Threat Intelligence

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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.

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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Information Systems, Math, Engineering or related field, or equivalent industry experience.

• Analytical, problem-solving, and software design skills (object-oriented design and analysis, relational database design).

• 12+ years of experience with one or more general purpose programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Python, Java, C/C++, Rust.

• Experience with one or more leading client libraries or frameworks such as React or Angular.

• Experience in agile, DevOps, building micro services a plus.

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As a Principal Software Engineer, you will:

• Technically lead and mentor brilliant engineers.

• Partner with Architects, Product Managers, and Designers to deliver most impactful features.

• Design and develop large scale distributed software applications, services, and solutions.

• Troubleshoot and optimize test automation, reliability, performance, and monitoring for production applications and services.

• Adhere to and lead modern software engineering practices through design reviews.

• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our applications and services by ensuring that components are well-defined, modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.

• Expose test coverage issues, organize, and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.

• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.

• Assume on-call duties as scheduled.

• Lead engineering and operational excellence across the organisation.