Senior Software Engineer - Automation
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Dec 24, 2024 | |
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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 Insider Risk Program is dedicated to safeguarding our people, data, and intellectual property from internal threats that could compromise the security and integrity of the company. Built on a foundation of innovation and collaboration, the program combines proactive detection, advanced data analytics, and effective response mechanisms to identify and mitigate insider risks in real-time. Our team is focused on building secure, scalable solutions that empower our analysts to efficiently respond to potential risks, ensuring Microsoft's most valuable assets are protected from within.As a key contributor to this program, you will play a crucial role in developing automated workflows and advanced tools that enhance our ability to respond swiftly and accurately to insider threats, enabling us to stay ahead in a high-stakes security environment.This program is a unique opportunity for engineers passionate about security and automation to impact Microsoft's overall security posture directly. Joining this team means being part of an innovative effort to redefine how Microsoft approaches internal risk management at scale. 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.
ResponsibilitiesWe are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Insider Risk Program team. This role is integral to enhancing the efficiency and scalability of our insider risk response process. By automating repetitive tasks, you will play a key role in improving operational efficiency, reducing response times, and supporting the expansion of insider risk monitoring capabilities across the organization. Key responsibilities include the following:o Design, develop, and implement automated workflows to support the insider risk response process, aiming to reduce manual intervention and improve operational efficiency.o Collaborate with the Insider Risk Operations team to understand requirements and build automation solutions that improve alert triage, case management, and report generation.o Create investigation notebooks to consolidate data and provide analysts with a comprehensive view of each case, saving time and ensuring data integrity.o Work closely with data engineers and analysts to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in current processes and implement automation solutions.o Develop and maintain detailed documentation for all automation workflows, including architecture, dependencies, and standard operating procedures.o Ensure all automation processes comply with applicable security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.o Review and peer-assess code in line with security policies and best practices. | |