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Senior Software Engineer -CTJ - POLY
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Virginia, Reston | |
 Mar 05, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe 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. 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. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our combined Software Engineering team which focuses on providing Foundational Security Services for the Government clouds. Our organization is responsible for core distributed security infrastructure including key management, disk encryption and data protection, Trusted Launch, and attestation of the platform as well as customer VMs, Azure Confidential Computing infrastructure services, Linux security, and other security capabilities for the Azure ecosystem. Our team's focus is on the attestation services to include Microsoft Azure Attestation, Trusted Hardware Identity Management, and Host Attestation Service. Our team provides leadership, direction, and accountability for cloud design, service architecture, engineering infrastructure, and data platform development. You will help conduct business reviews and operate our production services. Collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services and systems are highly stable, meet performance Service level agreements (SLA), and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users. 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.
ResponsibilitiesWe are looking for passionatepeoplewith experiences working with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, ability to designcomponentscarefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability.Responsibilities include:Defining well thought out design patterns and code with an emphasis on quality, simplicity, maintainability, and performance Engineering systems.Driving efficiencies through software improvement and root cause analysis resulting in service delivery, maturity, and scalability.Proactively identifying and reducing issues through design, testing, and implementation of software-based solutions.Identify opportunities and drive the design and implementation of end-to-end telemetry, alerting, self-healing, and automation capabilities to improve service health, manageability, and reliability.Participate in an on-call rotation (typically 24/7 for one week every 6-8 weeks) within a secure facility. | |