RiskIQ, which is part of Microsoft's Cloud Security team, is the leader in attack surface management, providing the most comprehensive discovery, intelligence, and mitigation of threats associated with an organization’s digital presence. With more than 75 percent of attacks originating outside the firewall, RiskIQ allows enterprises to gain unified insight and control over web, social and mobile exposures. RiskIQ’s platform combines advanced internet data reconnaissance and analytics to expedite investigations, understand digital attack surfaces, assess risk, and take action to protect the business, brand, and customers.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features as part of delivering our SaaS Security Software
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are: well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
• Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.

Qualifications

Essential qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.
• 1+ years of software design and development experience with backend services.
• 1+ years hands on experience in any Object-Oriented coding language such as C++, C#, Java or Python

Preferred qualifications

• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.
• Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.
• Excellent analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design
• Passion for building highly scalable, highly reliable services
• Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes.
• Experience with Java’s Spring framework
• Experience with transactional databases (e.g., MySQL), full-text search (e.g., SOLR, ElasticSearch), and caching (e.g., Redis, Memcached)
• Experience with Hbase, Kafka, Hadoop

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.