Software Engineer II

Overview 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.

Azure Key Vault team provides key and secrets management for customers and is at the heart of security for Microsoft and its customers. It provides secrets and key management at scale for Azure and M365 customers enabling customers to protect their data in rest and in transit.We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join our team.

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 Design, build, and scale backend services and data pipelines that power device and security intelligence Contribute to the development of high-quality, durable data foundations used across Microsoft Security Bring together fragmented device and security signals from multiple systems into a consistent, reliable view Define and implement data models, pipelines, and system contracts across large-scale distributed systems Contribute to architectural decisions and tradeoffs that balance correctness, scalability, latency, and complexity Own or contribute to key platform components, supporting design, delivery, and operational excellence Embody our culture and values Qualifications Required 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.

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