Software Engineer 2

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.

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. Our flagship product, Security Copilot, is the first generative AI product that empowers security and IT teams to protect at the speed and scale of the AI, while remaining compliant to responsible AI principles. As pioneers in the field, we are committed to addressing the evolving challenges and opportunities within the realm of cybersecurity. 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.

We are looking for a customer obsessed and results oriented software engineer, who can design and develop Generative AI services. The team is responsible for delivering a suite of generative AI API based offerings that deliver large language model (LLM) capabilities to Security developers and organizations. These services are designed to simplify the integration of AI functionalities by abstracting the underlying complexities. This team is responsible for building capabilities to offer different base or fine-tuned generative AI models (STM, SecPhi, Fine Tuned Qwen/Llama etc) and enabling deployments at scale, GPU capacity management and optimization, integrating Responsible AI compliance across AI services and handles uninterrupted model upgrades, deployment and fine tuning.

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

Responsibilities include:

• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, scalable, compliant, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews
• Adding and optimizing monitoring coverage, including self-healing for services
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/ telemetry to make decisions
• Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, service integration and geo-expansion, software performance analysis and system tuning.
• Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site

Qualifications

Required:

• 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, or Python etc. OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in building, shipping and maintaining cloud services on Azure, AWS, Google Cloud or similar
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.
• Required problem solving, system design, rapid prototyping, and effective communication skills.

Preferred:

• Experience in developing, fine-tuning, integrating and automated deployment of Generative AI models, such as large language models (LLMs)
• Proficiency with containers and experience working with Kubernetes for orchestration and strong experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployments

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: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:
- This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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. 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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