Software Engineer

Overview

The Identity and Network Access engineering team is hiring Software Engineers to build and manage the new Microsoft Entra Security Service Edge (SSE) offerings. We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances in online security and user management with "security for AI" and "AI for security" motto. Employees in our division have deep technical knowledge, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, very large-scale experience. We are engineers, technology leaders and adepts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates. Our teams are seeking a knowledgeable and passionate software engineers to join us as we create and deliver mission critical services and processes to enable Microsoft's online presence. You will have the opportunity to design and develop creative, compelling, and cutting-edge systems that support our world-wide operations. You will develop software and services at scale, innovating on the latest technologies as the earliest adopters while mentoring other team members. Also, our culture promotes diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion and is clearly reflected in all of the things we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us - it is the foundation of what we do. Our team has a committed sense of accountability and provides its members with many opportunities for learning and career growth. We have an exciting opportunity for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire, and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more!

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

- Works with the Product and Engineering team members to design and develop large scale distributed networking security software services and solutions.

- Leverages AI to build advanced security capabilities and boost engineering productivity.

- Adheres to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews.

- Designs systems through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.

- Develops "best-in-class" engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.

- Improves test coverage for services, organizes and implements integration tests, and resolves problem areas.

- Considers testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understands when code is ready to be shared and delivered.

- Gains a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborates with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.

- Focuses on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.

- Troubleshoots and optimizes automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site.

Qualifications

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Golang, or Rust,
  • 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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Golang, or Rust,
  • OR 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++, Golang, or Rust,
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Familiarity with core networking protocols and technologies (HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP, DNS. etc.).
• Experience with Unix/Linux based operating systems and open-source contributions.
• Experience working with Proxy stack such as Istio/Envoy/nginx/HAProxy.

Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,400 - $168,100 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $111,100 - $183,700 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.