Senior Software Engineer

The bleeding edge of security is a mix of new emerging technologies and techniques combined with their application into existing systems. Inside Azure, one of the largest clouds in the world, the threats that you will fight never sleep, and the solutions that you create to fight these threats will work just as hard. You’ll utilize the latest silicone and security processes to ensure that Microsoft maintains itself as the gold standard of trusted computing. Your role on this team will be to ensure defense in depth even when machines enter into third party hands.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Azure Compute, you will be bringing full disk encryption, used across 3mil+ machines, to a new system, and working to improve the protocols underpinning the processes that enable this encryption. This opportunity will expose you to the immense scale that Azure has to offer, teaching you how to develop solutions that work in hyperscale environments while maintaining the highest level of quality. This position is available in Redmond with the option of hybrid or remote work.

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

• Leading the efforts for migrating the full disk encryption solution to a new platform.
• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
• Embody our Culture and Values

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
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience building software systems in distributed or cloud computing environments.

Other Qualifications:

• 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:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java.
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with PXE boot, DHCP
• 4+ years of experience building software systems in distributed or cloud computing environments.
• Experience with asymmetric and symmetric encryption

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specifi