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. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team in building services and features that enable trusted execution environments and advance the capabilities of confidential computing. 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 platform 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 passionate about protecting Microsoft and customer’s assets in the cloud, 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** This is a key role on a highly visible v-Next project responsible for implementing a scalable and secure service that provides caching support to confidential computing scenarios in control plane. You will be working in a fast-paced environment to deliver highly-available, distributed services that are responsible for attesting to security state of Microsoft Cloud assets and enabling critical security scenarios. This unique role provides an opportunity to 1) Work on cutting edge security technologies like attestation. 2) Build secure cloud services that scale to millions of nodes. 3) Work in an agile / Dev-Ops environment. In this position, you will own 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 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience + 2+ years design and development experience that includes development in C#/C++/C, preferably with distributed programming models. + 2+ years experience building and designing very large-scale systems **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. **Additional or Preferred Qualifications:** + Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field + AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field + AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience. + Prior experience in building large scale online systems. + Demonstrate problem solving and debugging skills. Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 30, 2025. \#MSFTSecurity Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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