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　　Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

　　​​Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.​

　　​​The Azure Data databases blue team is hiring a PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER. Our team is responsible for the monitoring and detection of potential security breaches in the Azure Data databases platforms. It is a highly collaborative team that works closely with both a corresponding red team and the product teams to ensure that the right signals and alerts are in place. The Azure Data databases blue team is at the core of building customer trust. We solve big data problems to keep our customers protected. The Azure Data databases production fleet is over 1 million nodes. The Azure Data databases revenue is over $10 billion dollars. Our telemetry emits signals from every node, every customer in the fleet.

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　　We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

　　Responsibilities

　　Security Monitoring

　　Build security telemetry that can scale to a 1M+ node fleet

　　Build detections on that telemetry to detect intrusions based on the latest threat research.

　　Security Incident Response

　　Assess the threat level of incident based on impact and ease of exploit.

　　Coordinate across the organization when multiple services are impacted

　　Security Assurance

　　Understand current security trends and vulnerabilities.

　　Participate in security design reviews and threat model reviews prior to the release of new products or features, communicating clearly the different security options and tradeoffs.

　　Deliver broadly available security trainings based on learnings from previous exercises or incidents.

　　Qualifications

　　Required/Minimum Qualifications

　　Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

　　OR equivalent experience.

　　1+ Years of software security experience

　　Other Requirements

　　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.

　　Preferred/Additional Qualifications

　　Passion and previous experience software security.

　　Collaboration and communication experience working in a matrix organization.

　　Previous experience in database technology.

　　Previous experience in cloud technology.

　　Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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

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