Senior Software Engineer - Azure Security - Microsoft

Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work, and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. In Microsoft’s Cloud + AI (C+AI) division, our solutions enable customers to successfully transform their businesses to the cloud.  The scale of platforms and services we are building are among the largest in the world. From core cloud computing platform development to the services running on them, we do it all. 

Cloud Security is responsible for ensuring customers trust Microsoft’s cloud platform.  

We are part of Management Plane team responsible for solving Infrastructure/platform, Capacity Planning, Safe Deployment Practices, Observability & Monitoring, Live Site using Software Engineering and Machine Learning for Azure Managed HSM.

Our goal is to 

1) meet our customer needs by iterating safely and quickly 

2) Improve engineering efficiency and preventing issues from reaching production by leveraging Chaos Engineering, Fuzzing, Load Testing. 

We are building distributed service that will extend our portfolio of world-class solutions for securing Azure, Microsoft. 

We’re looking for smart, passionate software engineers who want to create something new that our business and customers need.  You’ll work with a team of engineers to design and implement the service, ensuring your components are high quality and easily supported in a dev-ops model.  You’ll collaborate with your feature team to make product and technology decisions.  You’ll execute on a fast-paced timeline with a team of individuals who have a track record of successful delivery. 

You’ll build a highly reliable, available, and secure service that integrates with other Azure services to provide a seamless and intuitive customer experience. 

Solve hard problems; build a new and innovative service that impacts teams across the Azure platform using modern cloud technologies; learn, teach and grow as a software engineer – sound like fun?  Apply today! 

• Work on the core of Azure, building and securing the foundation of the cloud itself.
• Develop the full stack, from intuitive and responsive user and developer experiences, to highly scalable, secure and reliable webservices and back-end infrastructure.
• Execute on a technical strategy for delivering azure services whose core functionality is essentially running truly a cloud.
• Deliver a lot of high-quality code for your products and engineering systems.
• Build on our Microsoft principles (create clarity, generate energy, deliver success) and values (respect, integrity, accountability) to effectively collaborate and make things happen. 

Required Qualifications:   

• Demonstrated years of experience as a senior software engineer 
• Experience shipping distributed systems, services, and highly available infrastructure.
• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#  

Preferred Qualifications:

• An understanding of basic applied cryptography concepts including encryption/decryption, symmetric and asymmetric keys, certificates, signing/verifying 
• Experience with building services and web platforms that are highly reliable, run at high scale, and recover automatically from failure
• Practical experience with containers, PaaS/SaaS software engineering, distributed systems engineering
• Experience and good understanding with Hardware Security Module and Integration with Azure
• Experience with fault injection, fuzzing, load generation, security and reliability resiliency validations

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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.

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