Senior Software Engineer

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.

The Azure Security team is the key team focused on building tools and applications that ensure that the foundation of Microsoft cloud business has rock-solid security, meeting highest industry bar, and is evolving as threats landscape evolves.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer with networking background to help build state-of-the-art security systems to protect the perimeter of cloud services. You would be working in an exciting and fast-paced environment, collaborating with multiple teams across organizations, building cloud services, and security systems that protect our Azure and Microsoft Cloud. You would collaborate across multiple organizations at Microsoft to build next generation systems to improve perimeter security for cloud services.

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.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience building maintainable and reliable, distributed systems and cloud services.

Other Requirements:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: 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:
  • This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline, or equivalent relevant work experience
• Experience in cloud development principles and patterns, particularly loosely coupled architectures and micro-services
• Technical knowledge of cloud-native compute, storage and networking aspects along with exposure to orchestration technologies & CI/CD tools.
•  Collaboration skills with ability to develop key partnerships
• Experience with Azure, AWS, GCP or public cloud offerings

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 for the role until July 15, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Hands-on in the development process which includes assisting with the authoring and reviewing of designs, writing and reviewing production code, and supporting our live services
• Be able to think strategically, work pragmatically and with enthusiasm in a fast-moving environment with few guardrails
• Have  customer empathy and an ability to focus our engineering efforts on customer requirements as well as Microsoft’s business priorities
• Work with senior and principal engineers in a specific feature area, collaborate with peers, and mentor engineers.
• Posses customer empathy and an ability to focus our engineering efforts on customer requirements as well as Microsoft’s business priorities.
• Solve interesting problems and lead change across teams

Other

• Embody our Culture and Values