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. 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.

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.

The Azure Key Management HSM team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help us achieve our vision. Our team creates groundbreaking technologies that enable customers to protect their most valuable assets using some of Azure's most secure hardware infrastructure. The customer-managed HSM solutions enables customers to run their workloads with stringent security and compliance requirements. By joining our team, you'll have the opportunity to shape, build, and expand this platform, build new products on a large scale in a supportive and inclusive environment. You'll work with some of the brightest minds in the security industry, make a significant impact, and develop your skills and career. 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.

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

• Build highly scalable, secure and reliable web services & platform for Azure.
• Build Key Management Service over cryptographic hardware.
• Own technical design, implementation and quality for feature and engineering work.
• Interact and collaborate with partner teams to deliver cohesive solutions for the Azure platform.
• Collaborate with team members to deliver features, provide technical mentorship and improve the engineering system.
• Improve the high availability, resiliency and scalability of the platform.
• Build prototypes and drive architectural design.
  
  

Qualifications

Qualifications

• BS Degree in Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
• software development experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C, C++, C#.
• Experience in writing RESTful applications and leveraging distributed databases.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in shipping services and highly available infrastructure, or a burning desire to learn
• Hands-on experience with C++ development on Linux.
• Experience implementing or maintaining software that uses secure communications, cryptographic algorithms, public key infrastructure, or key management technologies.
  
  

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.

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