Overview

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Software Engineer to join the Security Copilot team. In this role, you will help shape the future of AI-powered cybersecurity by building intelligent agents and platform capabilities that serve both internal (1P) and external (3P) customers. You will work on cutting-edge technologies including Knowledge Systems, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), model fine-tuning, and memory architectures. A key focus will be developing specialized agents that empower security researchers and analysts, enabling them to operate more efficiently and effectively in complex threat environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, scalable, compliant, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable

• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews

• Adding and optimizing monitoring coverage, including self-healing for services

• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/ telemetry to make decisions

• Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, service integration and geo-expansion, software performance analysis and system tuning.

• Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site

• 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, or Python etc. or equivalent experience.

• Experience in building, shipping and maintaining cloud services on Azure, AWS, Google Cloud or similar

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.

• Required problem solving, system design, rapid prototyping, and effective communication skills.

Qualifications

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

• Experience with LLMs, RAG, vector databases, and model fine-tuning techniques.

• Experience in software development in AI/ ML or security domains.

• Proficiency with containers and experience working with Kubernetes for orchestration and strong experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployments.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Software Engineer II