Senior Software Engineer

The Microsoft Silicon Engineering Solutions and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) team is responsible for developing and delivering the hardware and firmware that is responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide.  

Azure Hardware Key Management Service (HKMS) team is part of the SWFW COE (Software and Firmware Center of Excellence) team under SCHIE. HKMS team works closely with Microsoft product groups, industry partners and researchers to architect and develop server hardware solutions that meet the requirements for our cloud services platforms at the lowest possible cost of ownership. 

In HKMS team, you will design and develop high scalable, reliable and world class manageable cloud-based services to harvest, issue, and authenticate hardware identities of root-of-trust devices for datacenter cloud servers, to track device lifecycle and enable FW security features, and improve reliability and security of cloud server hardware during the entire lifecycle. You will also work closely with Microsoft partner suppliers for onboarding Microsoft HW certificate manufacture provisioning process. 

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 Required Qualifications:   

• B.S./M.S. in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent additional industry experience 

• 6+ years of professional experience in designing, developing, or maintaining software solutions. 

• Solid knowledge and hands on experience of C#, .Net framework OR Java OR C++. 

• Working experience designing and developing cloud-based services or microservices.  

• A high tolerance for ambiguity and change  

• Excellent English written and oral communications. 

Preferred Qualifications:   

• Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills 

• Working knowledge in software security, digital asset security, cryptography, X509 certificate and digital signing 

• Web API services infrastructure (HTTP, HTTP/2, RESTful, Swagger), Microservices 

• Familiarity with Azure services like storage, networking, Service Fabric, Cosmos DB, Event Hubs is a plus 

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.   

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. 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.

• Be responsible for design, implementation, support, testing, and DevOps of global and regional microservices, control plane services and client tools. 

• Join Take on-call (DRI) rotations, participate in Live-Site activities pertaining to compliance, security, availability, and customer issue intake processes. 

• Define and measure service level indicators and lead the design of process and technology solutions that enable measurable performance against SLIs and KPIs. 

• Bring excellent software engineering habits and produce high quality code that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD). 

• Work closely with Microsoft major Cloud Server hardware supplier for onboarding and maintenance of manufacture certificate provisioning process. 

• Mentor and provide technical guidance to more junior members of the team.