Software Engineering IC3

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 Secure Admin Services organization, part of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Organization, is seeking a passionate Software Engineer to deliver high-quality services and products.

The ideal candidate will have proven software development experience and the ability to translate business problems into solutions while maintaining a focus on security, resilience, scale and customer experience. Our Secure Admin Services organization manages the entire stack from custom application development to identity and security products/tooling, as well as the underlying infrastructure.

We also own the Secure Admin Workstation product and collaborate closely with other product teams across Microsoft to continuously improve the experience while maintaining our critical security posture. Our team has won the CSO50 award twice for High-Risk Environments and Secure Admin Workstations and continues to be a key area of investment as we align with Microsoft’s Security. If you are passionate about writing scalable software and enjoy building and implementing next-generation security and resilience solutions at scale, we have a great opportunity for you.

This position requires a strong development background and the ability to collaborate with domain experts, architects, and senior technical members throughout the program life cycle. In this role, you will be a team player with a keen eye for detail and problem-solving skills.

Experience in Agile frameworks and popular coding languages is highly desirable. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in engineering/computer science.
• 4-6 years of professional software engineering experience designing, developing, and running enterprise applications.
• Experience in Object Oriented Programming, .NET framework, ASP.NET, MVC, Web API, C#, and SQL Server Programming along with experience in cloud services (Azure/ AWS)
• Good to have experience in the latest versions of scripting languages like React, Angular JS, PowerShell etc. and exposure to TFS/VSO and Git.
• Familiarity with SOA, distributed systems, and event driven architectures.
• Excellent coding skills, strong in OOPS, OOAD, design patterns and their application.
• Good understanding on security aspects of software like authentication, authorization, encryption, etc.
• Ability to both work independently and coordinate across geographies.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts to a variety of cross-group stakeholders.
• Strong organization skills, a bias for action, and ability to deliver results.
• Proven ability to deal with ambiguity and drive for clarity.
• Demonstrated ability to work efficiently, prioritize workflow, ramp quickly, and meet demanding deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiar with modern security models like OAuth and token-based authentication and authorization.
• Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.
• Experience using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD).
• Security and Identity domain experience.
• Familiarity with Machine Learning and applied AI concepts

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 owning multiple services, architecting them to scale, and have robust unit tests to deliver high quality products.
• Design and implement microservices to enable real time, highly scalable, performant, and sustainable solutions.
• Stay abreast of new techniques, tools and methodologies used to address the critical developmental areas.
• Use engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle to establish maintainable, reliable, and secure systems.
• Manipulate, collate, and analyze complex, high dimensional data from varying sources to solve difficult problems.
• Work in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth.
• Provide on call support and monitor the health of services in production as part of DevOps culture.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve applications to support the business to drive and enable security across systems.
• Work closely with business and engineering partners during early SDLC phases to understand the business capabilities and goals for the program.