Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

3d•$119,800 - $234,700

About The Position

The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. Are you ready to take your career to another level at Microsoft? At Microsoft Azure Security we are experiencing explosive growth and are looking for people who want to be part of that success. Azure is a major money maker, so when you join our team you will be working on high visibility projects with major impact on Microsoft’s bottom line. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team! Our global customers are realizing the benefits of moving their services and applications onto the cloud. Their foremost concern is Security. Equifax, CapitalOne, Under Armour, Saks, Lord & Taylor breach, Facebook, Orbitz? Russian interference? The list gets longer every month. Not if we can help it. Security is a key component of our work but that’s not all we do. We are looking for people who can design and implement cloud scale platform services in these areas. These positions also involve developing distributed services at hyper scale and the mindset that comes with developing these services. A lot of innovation is happening in security at extreme cloud scale. Our team’s goal is to ensure that Azure Security is the most secure and resilient cloud platform with high development agility and operational efficiency. This is a unique role that provides an opportunity to: Lead and build trusted computing infrastructure in Azure partnering with various organizations and companies. Work on cutting edge industry standard security technologies related to identity, access management, deployment integrity, and secrets protection. Architect and build critical ring0 cloud security services that scale to millions of nodes. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

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 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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Strong technical leadership to drive initiatives across organizations.
Passion in building and designing very large-scale systems.
Prior experience in building large scale online systems is a big plus.
Proven technical leader with architecture, design, and development experience.
5+ years of experience developing and shipping software/services.
Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills.
Ability to multi-task while balancing short term and long-term needs is essential.
Ability to deal with ambiguity, deliver in an agile environment, be willing to learn and adopt new technologies/industry trends and have good cross group collaboration skills.
Security including PKI, encryption/decryption, and digital signature experience is a bonus.
4+ years of software development experience in Windows programming using Win32, or on ARM64 platform.

Responsibilities

Take charge and own all aspects of building and running highly available secure distributed services while providing mission critical functionality for Azure.
Architecting, designing, coding and operationalizing security services at massive scale that will help ensure Azure is the most secure cloud operating system in the world!