Software Engineer II

The Security Platform team’s mission is to building cloud solutions to support premium features that provide security, compliance, data governance, data loss prevention, and more, in a fully integrated manner from services to clients of Office 365 as well as Windows. We create global scale services to transport, store, secure and manage some of the most sensitive data on the planet and build our services on top of Azure, Exchange and other cloud platforms, and our experiences in Office applications like Outlook. The IDC arm of the team is expanding substantially and is looking for talented and highly motivated engineers. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone who has, or wants to build, expertise in cloud distributed systems, or in security and compliance, or both.  

Team will be building cloud solutions meeting scales that few companies in the industry are required to support, that leverage state of the art technologies to deliver holistic protection to a planet scale user base. Office 365 is the industry leader in hosted productivity suites and boasts of being the fastest growing business at Microsoft with more than 100 million seats hosted in multiple data centers across the globe. The Security Platform team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, cloud design, infrastructures development and end to end implementation. You will independently determine and develop architectural approaches and Infrastructure solutions, conduct business reviews, and operate our production services. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users.  

Expertise/Experience  

• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and common Design Patterns.  
• 2 + years of relevant software development experience and proficient in C# (Java or C++)  
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases, and good hands-on knowledge of operating systems like Linux or Windows.  
• Good knowledge of cloud development (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)  
• Familiarity with working in Kubernetes, Rest API design and construction. Able to effectively use the cloud API and construct large scale Microservices. 
• Aware of secure coding practices and data structures 
• Experience and involvement with DevOps is a plus  
• Effective communication/collaboration skills, ability to deal with ambiguity and prioritize issues.  
• Collaborating with technical partners to deliver end-to-end solutions.  
• Experience with multithreading and asynchronous processing patterns. 
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline using agile practices.  
• Ability to quickly ramp up on multiple technology areas   

Interpersonal skills  

• A sense of personal ownership is required, together with the ability to deliver to tight deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations.  
• Self-motivated and organized to deliver results.   

 Essential qualifications  

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.  
• Minimum of 2 years of applicable work 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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

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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.  

We are looking for someone who is a highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast paced, highly technical environment, has a strong customer focus and understands the importance of Live Site, has a demonstrated ability to establish and manage relationships across organizational boundaries, has proven experience dealing with large scale data architecture, operational architecture and or network architecture and proven experience creating distributed systems tools of moderate-to-high complexity. You will be responsible to perform investigations and investments in complex areas; designing and delivering features end to end - including system architecture, code, deployment, scale, performance and quality, from conception to delivery.  

• Design and implement scalable, reliable, maintainable services.  
• Consistently contribute key ideas to the product or service design and vision that meets the customer's needs  
• Adhere to modern engineering practices, effective coding, writing unit test cases, debugging, code reviewing and creating CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipelines.  
• Conduct testing and code reviews to ensure quality code is released to production systems.  
• Work across geographic and organizational boundaries to define requirements, scope work, develop features, integrate functionality, and meet key performance goals.  
• Own and drive projects with large scope and complicated features by working toward self-defined goals and milestones.  
• Deliver on engineering commitments, while keeping customer experience and satisfaction as the overarching goal  
• Build functional and technical documentation.  
• Identify and triage bugs, develop fixes to code defects.  
• Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code  
• Have a sense of pride, commitment, and personal accountability for the service quality, completeness and resulting user experience for the life of the product or service