About this role
Senior/Software Engineer II - Agentic Security
United States, Washington, Redmond
Job description
Company and benefits
Job number
200058500
Date posted
Sep 30, 2026
Work site
3 days / week in-office
Travel
Less than 25%
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Role type
Individual Contributor
Employment type
Full-Time
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.
The Agentic Security Data Platform team builds and operates Microsoft’s next-generation security data platform, enabling the large-scale ingestion, storage, governance, and consumption of security and identity telemetry. Our team develops scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient cloud-native services that enable security organizations and partners to onboard, access, analyze, and derive insights from high-volume security data.
As a Software Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will help design, build, and modernize the services and ingestion pipelines that capture and process security data at scale. You will work on challenging distributed systems and data platform problems and contribute to a unified platform that powers Microsoft’s security products. This is an opportunity to build highly scalable, reliable, and efficient systems that support security experiences across Microsoft.
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
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and customers to gather requirements, provide feedback, and deliver effective solutions.
- Instrument data and develop key metrics to measure product usage, effectiveness, and customer satisfaction, enabling data-driven decision making.
- Design, develop, and implement new identity management components, features, and platform enhancements.
- Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex live site issues across compute, networking, storage, and distributed systems.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to improve system reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Analyze production telemetry and customer feedback to identify improvement opportunities and drive continuous enhancements.
- Champion the adoption of modern engineering practices, including automated validation, safe and staged deployment strategies, continuous integration and delivery, and developer productivity tooling to increase both engineering velocity and operational confidence.
- Actively leverage AI-assisted engineering tools throughout the software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, code review, testing, troubleshooting, and docume