Software Engineer

The Cloud & AI 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 is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

The Azure Security Platform Services org is responsible for ensuring that Azure remains most secure and resilient cloud platform, with a special focus on Confidential Computing. The Confidential VM provisioning team plays a key role in provisioning Confidential VM's seamlessly and securely in Azure. The team works on building high quality, globally available cloud services to securely provision the Confidential VM's and plays a critical role in shaping how VM provisioning works in Azure end-to-end from control plane to data plane. In addition to provisioning VM's securely, the team also works very closely with the hypervisor and core OS teams as well as external linux distributions to bring full disk encryption capabilities in OS. 

We are looking for a passionate software engineer who will work with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services. You will have a great opportunity to work across the tech stack from cloud services to low level systems design to enable new cutting edge confidential VM's in Azure. You will work on cutting edge products, gain extensive experience of building and operationalizing cloud scale services, and enhance your understanding of cloud security fundamentals. 

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.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline, with proven experience coding in C, C++, or C#,
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with development in C, C++, or C#.

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. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python,
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python,
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with development in C, C++, or C# with distributed programming models.
• Interest in building and designing very large-scale systems; prior experience in building large scale online systems is a big plus.
• Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills.
• Experience in Windows client, server OS security, and applied cryptography. 

Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 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 $109,000 - $180,400 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 October 22, 2025.

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• Designs the components, writes clean code, and adds unit & end-to-end tests.
• Helps build new customer-facing offerings that will extend the portfolio of Trusted and Confidential Computing services for securing Azure customers workloads.
• Contributes to the efforts to design, build high quality security cloud services in Azure.
• Analyzes the virtual machine life cycle in Azure from control plane as well as data plane perspectives.
• Solves hard problems, defines architecture, partners with colleagues, and ensures high code quality, availability, scalability, and security of our services.