Would you like to spend your days keeping the community safe? 

Join the Web Defense Services Team

Cybercrime is estimated to cost society $6T annually with the majority of cybercrime exploiting the human. Of the 100 most significant security incidents which occurred during 2019, humans were tricked in 71% of those through forms of phishing. The human layer remains the weakest link in cyber defense without effective protection. 

Become a founding member of the new Microsoft Web Protection team, chartered with innovating new technologies to protect customers from phishing, social engineering, credential theft, credit card scams, and the emerging threats plaguing society. Microsoft is uniquely at the center of this challenge, and we have the responsibility to protect the world! You will be a part of a team that will provide the foundation for protecting customers across all products (Windows, Exchange, Office, LinkedIn etc.), while supporting the rapidly growing $7B Microsoft Threat Protection security business.  

We are seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer to join us in the Web Protection Service team. We offer you a talented team and culture that invests in new technologies and in our people for the long term. While we design as a platform, we ship constantly in an incremental fashion. Emphasis is on solid, long-term design, incremental development with high quality, and adapting to early customer feedback. 

Responsibilities

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Web Defense Services team, your areas of focus will cloud services architecture, design, software engineering and live-site support. The services you help build and deploy will help end users stay and feel safe from cyber threats. Users must be able to control and access this information from Web Browser, Desktop, and Mobile applications. 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 cloud services. You will work closely with Program Managers and other Security Engineering disciplines to deliver core features in the Microsoft security offerings, as well as back-end functionality that underpins them. You will play a vital role in the fight against phishing, social engineering, malware and see the results of your work contributing to the protection of millions of customers. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications 

• 6+ years software development experience.
• Proven track record architecting and developing low-latency scalable cloud services. 
• Proficiency in C/C++, C# (.NET Core) and python.
• Experience with microservices design and development.
• Experience with prominent big data storage and processing systems, such as HBASE and Spark. 

 Preferred Qualifications 

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Software Engineers, Program Managers, Security researchers, and Data Scientists. 
• Demonstrated leadership competencies such as creating clarity in an ambiguous environment, generating energy and delivering business outcomes. 
• Demonstrated experience with all stages of ML/AI development and common tools 

• • Platforms, engines: tensorflow, pytorch, ONNX, scikit-learn, AzureML
  • ML-Ops: AzureML, Kubeflow, MLflow
  • Graph-based learning: node embeddings, common graph algorithms
  • ML development: comfortable with model development, tuning and ML-Ops
  • ML/AI Explainability: demonstrated understanding of common algorithms such as LIME, SHAP, PDP, EBM

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 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.  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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