Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Azure has been a pioneering leader in the innovation and adoption of confidential computing (CC) technology, which enables a new level of security for cloud workloads. Our vision is to transform the Azure Cloud into the Azure Confidential Cloud and enable the industry to move from computing in the clear to computing confidentially, both in the cloud and at the edge.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying and supporting features and our customers for confidential compute. You will help Azure customers achieve the highest levels of privacy and security by delivering technology and solutions that protect their data in use in addition to breed existing means in Azure for protecting data at rest and in transit. This opportunity will allow you to learn areas of cloud infrastructure, operating the cloud at scale and technologies that help secure the cloud. The role provides flexibility allowing you to work from home partially.

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.

Relocation assistance is unavailable for this role

Responsibilities

• You will collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• You will lead discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and lead the code plans. Provides reactions, proposed solutions, and inputs to architects.
• You will partially own solutions for architecting of solutions, with technical oversight.
• Develops design documents for designs or User Stories and determines the technology that will be leveraged and how it will interact. Shares learnings and identified solutions from investigations with the team and owns for some design decisions.
• You will leverage a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.
• You will ensure appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value are incorporated.

Other:

• 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, Rust or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience with cloud services development on platforms such as Azure/AWS/GCP or others
• 2+ years of experience working with virtualization technology stack.

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, Rust, or Python
  • 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, Rust or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Understanding of basic cryptography.
• Cloud Buildout experience

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $11