Senior Software Engineer

With the increasing need to safeguard our customers and Microsoft services, the Azure Frontdoor WAF team is expanding to meet these growing demands. Azure Front Door offers a globally distributed, internet-facing suite of services that provide acceleration, caching, protection, and highly customizable traffic processing. As part of Azure Frontdoor, the WAF team develops products to protect distributed services that can handle requests with extremely low latency, at high scale, processing terabits of traffic per second and millions of requests per second with exceptional reliability. The WAF team builds services at Layer 7 and Layer 3/4 of the networking stack to detect and prevent malicious intents, mitigate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, build innovative dynamically adapting protection systems to provide controlled and valid access to customer workloads and content.

As a member of the Azure Front Door WAF team, you will be responsible for developing and operating the Web Application Firewall. You will build robust services to safeguard the customers , platform system at various networking layers using the latest technologies across platforms. Your role will involve writing and operating code that is super-scalable yet lightweight, maintainable, efficient, and reliable. Your work will be crucial in enhancing the performance, quality, density, and reliability of the platform. This opportunity allows you to work on multiple layers of the stack, innovate, and collaborate with various partner teams to deliver complex solutions. The position offers the flexibility to work from home or the office, depending on what best suits your needs.

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Required 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#, RUST, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience

Other Requirements:

• 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 Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Programming experience in one of C, RUST, C++, C# or Java and experience with working on Linux
• Experience delivering high quality implementations and designs while also working on testing and operational aspects of the service as well
• Experience in any of the following areas: L7 data plane, distributed control plane, cloud networking services
• Building lower level Linux components in Kernel or ebpf and Distributed networking experience

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.

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