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. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their true selves each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. We are looking for **Senior Software Engineer(s)** to join our organization to develop a scalable cloud scale graph platform Microsoft Cloud. **Azure Resource Graph Team's** (ARG part of ARM / Azure Control Plane) mission is to reliably organize the planet-scale cloud inventory and making it accessible to every Azure customer through scalable, and performant tools. ARG is the inventory of cloud resources, dependencies, services, apps & Azure metadata and is a core service enabling almost all Azure experiences and workloads that are running on top of Azure. Azure Portal, Azure Market Place, Search, Catalog at-scale experiences scenarios for every single Azure customer are powered by ARG. It provides a single pane of glass to query cloud resources via a set of flexible standards with rich scalable, efficient constructs. These standards and toolsets are used by large customers and first party teams alike. ARG’s vision is to enable any customer (large to small) to organize, govern, secure, manage and explore their environments at-scale. Anything we design, develop, or deliver aligns with this vision. As of today, we return close to 6.5+ billion cloud resources per day through these standards to our customers and independent software vendors. This position is one of the core engineering functions and sits right in the center of the platform enabling various other connected engineering functions. 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. **Responsibilities** + Lead critical platform initiatives to scale Azure’s infrastructure, focusing on high-throughput query and ingestion services with committed performance and reliability goals. + Architect and implement core systems at the intersection of distributed systems, runtime internals, and optionally, database internals to support Azure Inventory at scale. + Drive technical vision and design by applying deep expertise in one or more computer science domains, with the ability to adapt and excel across new technical areas. + Mentor and guide less experienced engineers, fostering a strong sense of purpose, technical proficiency, and team clarity through leadership and collaboration. + Develop deep business acumen in Azure’s ecosystem to align engineering solutions with strategic platform and customer needs. + Contribute to a culture of innovation and excellence, continuously improving system performance, scalability, and maintainability. **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications:** + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ yearstechnical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience. + 4+ years of industry experience building, designing, managing and delivering highly available, large-scale: cloud services **and/or** distributed systems / services **on** a cloud platform **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. **Additional or Preferred Qualifications:** + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, Java, Scala or TypeScript + OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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. + 2+ years of industry experience in exposure to the internals of databases, stores. Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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 Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis basis. \#MSFTSecurity Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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