Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Microsoft Purview is redefining how data protection works in an AI-native world. As Copilot adoption accelerates and collaboration patterns evolve, protection can no longer live as complex policy configuration buried in portals. It must be intelligent, adaptive, and operational by default.

Our team is building the next generation of AI-powered, secure-by-default experiences for SMB and SMC customerstransforming enterprise-grade data protection into intuitive, low-friction workflows that partners can deploy and manage at scale.

As a Senior Software Engineer (UX-focused), you will design and build end-to-end experiences that turn complex protection systemsDLP policies, labeling, risk signals, automation railsinto clear, actionable, and trustworthy admin journeys. You will work across front-end and service layers to deliver multi-tenant partner experiences, progressive enablement flows, AI-driven insights, and safe rollout mechanisms embedded directly into Microsoft 365 surfaces.

It is translating automation, orchestration, and AI signals into operational clarity for admins managing hundreds of tenants. You will help define how protection feelsopinionated, adaptive, and near-zero frictionwhile ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability across millions of users.

If you are excited by the challenge of turning complex distributed systems into elegant, high-trust product experiences that scale globally, this role offers the opportunity to shape the future of AI-native data security in Microsoft 365.

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 best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Our team is responsible for driving productled growth for Microsoft Purview in the SMB and SMC segments by making data protection simple to adopt, easy to scale, and valuable by default. We focus on building automationfirst protection packaging, multitenant and partneradmin experiences, and lightweight AIpowered capabilities that reduce configuration effort while increasing trust and clarity for customers and partners. The team works closely with engineering, research, MCAPS, IDEAS, and ecosystem partners to enable nearzerofriction activation, strong product hooks across Microsoft 365 workloads, and scalable partnerled deployment and management. Our goal is to translate enterprisegrade data protection into intuitive, repeatable experiences that help SMB customers protect their data and adopt AI safelywithout requiring deep security expertisewhile enabling partners to deliver and manage Purview at scale.



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Responsibilities

• Design and build end-to-end admin and partner experiences for Purview secure-by-default protection, including DLP policy enablement, labeling configuration, and baseline deployment workflows.
• Develop multi-tenant partner management experiences that allow MSP/CSP admins to deploy, monitor, and manage protection across customer estates with visibility into health, drift, and rollout status.
• Implement progressive enablement flows that intelligently guide admins to activate protection based on tenant signals (e.g., Copilot adoption, external sharing activity, Teams collaboration patterns).
• Build features that translate AI-driven insights (e.g., classifier precision, sensitive data trends, risk posture signals) into clear, actionable recommendations with explainability and confidence indicators.
• Collaborate closely with service engineers to integrate orchestration, provisioning workflows, idempotent deployment logic, and rollback/repair mechanisms into reliable UI experiences.
• Ensure performance, reliability, and scalability of experiences serving thousands of tenants and large datasets, with strong telemetry and diagnostics built in.
• Contribute to shared design systems and enforce consistency across Microsoft 365 admin surfaces while maintaining Purview-specific operational clarity.
• Drive engineering quality through thoughtful error handling, state management, safe rollout strategies, and measurable success metrics.
• Run rapid experiments to improve activation, adoption, and depth of usage Translate AI and automation outputs into clear, trustworthy, adminfriendly output.
  
  

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience developing complex, stateful web applications using modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, TypeScript)
• Proven experience building AI-assisted, recommendation-driven, or signal-based user experiences (e.g., confidence scoring, explainability panels, insight-driven actions)
• Demonstrated experience in security, compliance, governance, or data protection domains (e.g., DLP, labeling, policy management, access controls)
• Experience designing and implementing operational/admin workflows such as policy configuration, provisioning flows, deployment experiences, or compliance dashboards
• Experience integrating frontend systems with backend services involving orchestration, automation, or distributed systems APIs
• Experience building in multi-tenant or enterprise SaaS environments with strong awareness of security, data isolation, and access control models
• Solid understanding of reliability, performance optimization, observability, and safe rollout practices
  
  

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

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