Senior Software Engineer

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.

The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

Azure Platform Security Services Team is looking for a passionate and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team. We are responsible for ensuring Azure remains the most secure and resilient cloud platform with a special focus on confidential computing. We design and deliver secure, globally available cloud services that power Azure’s Confidential Virtual Machines (VMs). Our work shapes the future of VM provisioning covering everything from the control plane to the data plane. As part of our team, you’ll build cutting-edge technology that ensures security and scalability, work across the tech stack from cloud services to low-level systems design, and collaborate with experts to enable next-generation confidential computing in Azure. If you’re passionate about security, cloud innovation, and systems engineering, this is your opportunity to make an impact at scale.

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.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and development of core components by writing maintainable code and implementing comprehensive unit and end-to-end tests.
• Create innovative customer-facing solutions that expand Azure’s portfolio of Trusted and Confidential Computing services, helping secure workloads at scale.
• Drive the architecture and delivery of high-quality, secure cloud services in Azure, ensuring reliability and performance.
• Analyze and optimize the full Virtual Machine lifecycle across both control plane and data plane, shaping how provisioning works end-to-end.
• Tackle complex technical challenges by defining architecture, collaborating across teams, and ensuring code quality, scalability, availability, and security.

Qualifications

Required 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 equivalent 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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in software design and development, using languages such as C#, C++, C, or similar and experience with distributed programming models is highly valued.
• Experience in building and scaling large systems, with prior experience in developing high-performance, online platforms considered a strong advantage.
• Knowledge of Windows client and server OS security and applied cryptography is a plus, along with the ability to dive deep into security features and innovate in this space.

Software Engineering