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.

The Secrets Management and PKI team of the Identity division in Microsoft’s Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management organization is responsible for ensuring customers trust Microsoft’s cloud platform. We are building highly reliable, scalable, and secure services and infrastructure that underpin everything that our customers depend upon.

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join our team. We’re looking for smart, curious, passionate software engineers and engineering leaders who want to apply their experience and skills to create something new that our business and customers need.

Specifically, we are transforming our adoption of confidential computing for hardening our runtime and preventing credential theft and also working towards a post-quantum ready platform. You’ll be a technical leader in a team of engineers to deliver the technical design and implementation of critical capabilities, and you’ll ensure the highest quality for features and engineering systems.

You’ll have a meaningful and visible impact on reliability of services across Microsoft. 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 Work on the core of Azure, building and securing the foundation of the cloud itself.

Work across Azure to seamlessly integrate your service with partner teams, Azure product offerings, and our customers’ cloud infrastructure. Mentor developers on the team, create an environment where you and your team can do its best work, and influence and impact others through your results and collaboration.

Develop and execute on a technical strategy for delivering new service capabilities. Build highly scalable, secure, and reliable web services & platforms running on Azure. Build intuitive and responsive user and developer experiences. Be responsible for technical design, implementation and quality of features and engineering systems.

Interact and collaborate with partner teams to deliver cohesive, easy to use solutions for the Azure platform. Build on our Microsoft principles (create clarity, generate energy, deliver success) and values (respect, integrity, accountability) to effectively collaborate and make things happen.

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