Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly

Do you want to be at the center of Cloud Computing and work on services that touch every facet of Azure within the Azure Government Secret and Top-Secret Clouds?  Do you have an interest in driving security data collection and analysis along with driving AI Agent utilization into our daily operations?  You will be helping drive the actions of identity and security based on the insights and infuse it into our existing work streams to improve the overall efficiency of our teams. A successful candidate will have a passion for data science, computer science, machine learning/AI, and AI Agent and turning the data into meaningful insights that can be actionable.  If you have dreamed of having an impact on the global scale and having an immediate business impact, come talk to us today!

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.

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Responsibilities

• Share accountability of a wide array of assets and be comfortable with learning a broad array of technologies.
• Independently design and implement anomaly detection, auto-triaging/correlation, and causal inference models to deliver preventive insights to improve Identity systems availability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Work with Identity and Security teams to integrate the Insights into operations and system for automatic notification, mitigation and repairs.
• Contribute towards driving visibility into security events and identity services within the cloud
• Assist with building an automated data quality solution to detect problems in downstream dependencies and take automated action to correct them.
• Building agentic workflows, where you'll design and implement intelligent systems that can reason, plan, and act autonomously across complex software environments. You’ll collaborate across teams to integrate large language models and orchestration logic into end-to-end experiences, enabling adaptive, goal-directed behaviors within Microsoft products and services.
• Engineers should expect to participate in a regularly scheduled on-call rotation.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical field AND 2+ 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: 
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: 

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government 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 

Preferred / Additional Qualifications:

• 2+ year experience writing detections within big data and SIEM solutions such as ArcSight, Splunk, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Data Lake, or Azure Sentinel
• Solid understanding of AI/ML fundamentals, with experience in LLMs, prompt engineering, or autonomous agents
• Experience with Azure AI Studio or legacy Azure AI products is a plus
• Skilled working with extremely large data sets to answer complex and ambiguous questions, using tools and languages like: SQL, KQL, Jupyter Notebooks, Spark, Azure Synapse, R, U-SQL, Python, Splunk, Scala, and PowerBI.
• Languages: Python, Java, C#, or other OOP languages.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and communicate technical details with varying levels of management.
• Experience with software engineering tools such as CI/CD, Azure DevOps, git, and Agile Scrum.
• Background/familiarity with AI, prompt engineering, and Large Language Models.
• Experience with Windows, Azure, and O365.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 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 for the role until May 25th, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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