Software Engineer II

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.

Do you have experience creating high-volume, low-latency mission-critical services? Are you passionate about security and enjoy working in a diverse, inclusive global team? Does being part of a mature DevOps organization that owns the customer experience excite you? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity for you. The Trust and Security Services (TSS) engineering team oversees a range of services essential to establishing trust at Microsoft. These include code signing, anti-malware scanning, and the Microsoft Public Key Infrastructure (MSPKI). We face distinctive engineering challenges related to scale—processing billions of files monthly—varied workloads ranging from drivers to 4k AAA games, security both physical and logical, and compliance with standards like WebTrust. Our mission has always been at the forefront of our efforts. In an era where supply chain and security threats are continually escalating and becoming more complex, TSS services play a vital role in safeguarding our customers and partners. Our rapid growth presents an opportunity for your expertise to elevate Microsoft's trust foundation even further. Our team creates the infrastructure fabric platform that supports engineers in developing and powering service experiences. You will design, build, and operate fabric services critical to secure datacenters and high-security Azure environments, including compute provisioning, Service Fabric, service gateways, secure imaging, health agents, compliance, monitoring, and more. In this role you will gain: • Independence and the freedom to innovate • The chance to experiment and base decisions on data • The opportunity to work with advanced Azure technologies and services • A significant scope for impact as a part of a growing team, whose services are essential to every Microsoft product.

We are looking for a Software Engineer II with a passion for researching new areas, writing optimal code, enhancing coding standards, and shipping quickly. We follow short, frequent release cycles, allowing room for innovation in multiple areas. As a team, we welcome smart, motivated engineers with a positive attitude and growth mindset, ready to translate ambiguity into concrete deliverables that make a significant impact for our customers

This Hybrid Position is located at our Microsoft office in Phoenix, Arizona. US Domestic Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to relocate or reside within 50 miles of the field location. 

Required Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  • OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years industry experience building distributed systems
• Industry Experience in Managing Windows Server and/or Platform, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Active Directory, DNS, Imaging.
• Industry Experience in Threat Modeling

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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications: 

• 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 Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  • OR equivalent experience.

• Industry Experience in Developing & Operating Cloud Services
• Industry Experience with Infrastructure as a Code and/or DevOps Team
• Industry Experience in Microservices Development, deployment, and Monitoring
• Industry Experience in PKIs, Cryptography, or Certificate Management Experience
• Industry Experience with Network Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP etc.
• Industry Experience with Network Architecture

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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• Design, develop, validate and implement the next generation of platform infrastructure that is highly secure, performant, resilient, modular, meets reliability targets, includes observability, and that enables next gen experiences.
• Take up end-to-end ownership of deliverables and produce viable solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable backend infrastructure services that deliver delightful customer experiences.
• Focus on building innovative user experiences and automating manual processes.
• Ensure the security, scalability, reliability, and performance of services in production.
• Actively participate in code and design reviews to maintain high-quality code and solutions.
• Write and maintain unit tests and automated integration tests
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes and practices.
• Responding to and mitigating any live site issues impacting customers
• Become part of a talented team that values diverse ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds and be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to solving problems