Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

52d

About The Position

Team Description: 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 HM Team Description: Join Microsoft Entra’s Global Secure Access (GSA) Web + AI Gateway team, where we build security for AI and AI for security at global scale. Our team operates at the intersection of networking, security, and AI technologies, delivering cloud services that enable people to work securely from anywhere while meeting companies’ compliance needs. This is a rare opportunity to develop new products - large, strategic investments - within a well-established organization that is shaping the future of secure access. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help define, build, and evolve heavily integrated platforms at scale. You’ll work on cutting-edge solutions, creating a seamless, integrated stack that empowers productivity and security worldwide. If you’re passionate about designing networking systems that combine AI innovation with enterprise-grade security, this is your chance to make an impact. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to: C/C++, Golang, Rust, C# OR equivalent experience
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.

Nice To Haves

2+ years of experience with core networking protocols and technologies
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#, Golang, Rust
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#, Golang, Rust
OR equivalent experience.
Experience with development of resilient software, high-availability services
Contributions to open-source software projects
Knowledge of L7 proxy (nginx, envoy, haproxy), Data plane development kit (DPDK), L3/4 firewalls

Responsibilities

Work with the Product and Engineering team members to design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.
Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews.
System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.
Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.
Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.
Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site.
Embody our Culture and Values

Benefits

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

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