Senior Site Reliability Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jan 10, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity 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 365 organization is dedicated to securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' diverse environments (Office, Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, etc.), as well as safeguarding our own internal estate.Are you passionate about cybersecurity and protecting customer data? Do you enjoy solving problems using real-time large datasets and ML technologies? If so, consider joining the M365 Core Security team. We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help us expand our team of security and software professionals. Our team leverages trillions of signals across Office 365, Azure Active Directory, and Microsoft Defender, using cutting-edge threat research, AI/ML, and human expertise to analyze and prevent adversary activity and other potential malicious actions. We delve into billions of events and terabytes of data generated daily across Microsoft products (Azure, M365, Xbox, etc.) to detect, investigate, and remediate suspicious activity. Additionally, we work with government clouds and handle sensitive data, ensuring the highest levels of trust, security and compliance.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.
ResponsibilitiesWrite secure, high-quality code with a focus on maintainability, scalability, and performance.Analyze security threats to M365 and build monitoring components to address them. Identify and escalate detection issues (e.g., false positives, noise) appropriately.Prioritize security incidents to minimize threats and vulnerabilities from monitoring data. Correlate security data from various sources to detect patterns and root causes.Develop automation scripts to streamline security tasks and improve response times. Use machine learning and predictive analytics to foresee and mitigate potential security threats proactively.Implement systems for automatic detection and remediation of security issues to ensure continuous protection.Execute the DevSecOps approach by designing, coding, testing, deploying, and operating components of the Microsoft 365 security monitoring system.Participate in the on-call rotation cycle. | |