SOFTWARE ENGINEER II

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.  

We’re hiring a Software Engineer II to join our Secrets Management & PKI team. We own the Secret Activation SDK and the data plane SDK that power secure, reliable secret access across Microsoft and Azure services. You’ll build secure-by-default, high‑quality client libraries and platform integrations used by engineers across Identity, Azure, Office, Dynamics, and Xbox. Ideal candidates have strong software development fundamentals, experience with distributed systems or platform SDKs, and working knowledge of security principles (e.g., authN/Z, key management, PKI, crypto hygiene). Bring an Assume Breach mindset to harden our APIs, improve developer experience, and raise the security bar at Microsoft scale.

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.

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.
• 2+ years software development experience working in the Windows OS (and/or similar systems programming experience)
• 2+ years of experience with multi-threaded / parallel programming

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:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ 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 5+ 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 of experience in C++ 
• 1+ year of Experience with using AI models

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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 November 4th, 2025.

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• Build and maintain secure, developer‑friendly SDKs.
• Deliver end‑to‑end SDK lifecycle: design, implementation, versioning, documentation, and developer experience.
• Ensure reliability and LiveSite excellence through monitoring, telemetry, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Embed security and compliance by default, including threat modeling, safe defaults, and signed releases.