Software Engineer II

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.

Microsoft Azure is undergoing explosive growth as customers around the world realize the benefits of moving their services and applications to the cloud. Security is the foremost concern for our customers as they move their services outside their datacenters. The charter of the Azure Security group is to ensure that Azure is the most secure and resilient cloud platform. We are responsible for system integrity and health attestation, encryption and data protection, identity and access management, secrets/key management, and other security capabilities for the Azure platform running at cloud scale. If you are looking for a challenge and are passionate about protecting Microsoft and customer’s assets in the cloud, the Azure security team has the right role for you!

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.

Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer II, you will contribute to building new customer-facing services that enhance the portfolio of Trusted and Confidential Computing services for securing Azure customers. You will be responsible for developing high-quality security cloud services in Azure. This position offers a unique challenge to build services that provide security and simplicity for Azure customers. You will be solving complex problems, contributing to architecture, partnering with team members, and ensuring high code quality, availability, scalability, and security of our services. You will help create a positive and productive engineering culture and contribute to building best-in-class solutions that delight and protect our customers. This is a rare opportunity to be at the forefront of the trusted and confidential computing wave.

In this role, you will:

• Contribute to the strategy and roadmap for Trusted and Confidential Computing on Azure, working in close collaboration with partners across C+AI and Microsoft.
• Participate and provide high-quality feedback in design reviews, code reviews, and other team activities.
• Design and implement cloud-scale services that power products like Trusted and Confidential Computing on Azure.
• Develop distributed services at hyper scale and ensure high development agility and operational efficiency.
• Own all aspects of building and running highly available secure distributed services while providing mission-critical functionality for Azure.
• Participate in design and code reviews, provide high-quality feedback, and mentor engineers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to remove blockers and drive comprehensive end-to-end service delivery.
• Work on end-to-end aspects of building and running highly available secure distributed services providing mission-critical functionality for Azure.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years  technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 
• OR equivalent experience. 

Additional or Preferred 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 Master's Degree in Computer Science or related techni