Software Engineer II

Job description

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.

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 looking for a passionate Software Engineer to join the Secure Production Access (SPA) team within Microsoft’s IDC CISO organization.

This team builds secure, scalable, and resilient services that protect Microsoft’s most privileged environments—including the SAW, custom security applications, identity tooling, and supporting infrastructure.

You will collaborate across engineering, security, and operations groups to translate complex business and security requirements into robust, production-grade solutions while driving performance, reliability, and customer experience.

You will build and enhance the App Packaging service to enable secure, scalable deployment of diverse applications across SAW devices, including external integrations, SCCM and SQL Server infrastructure management, workflow automation, and end-to-end performance and resilience engineering.

Strong .NET/C# development skills, deep security fundamentals, distributed systems experience, and a bias for automation, collaboration, and continuous improvement are essential.

Familiarity with modern security models, agile delivery, and emerging AI concepts is a plus as this work directly supports Microsoft Security and SFI initiatives.

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**

• Be responsible for owning multiple services, architecting them to scale, and have robust unit tests to deliver high quality products.

• Design and implement microservices to enable real time, highly scalable, performant, and sustainable solutions.

• Stay abreast of new techniques, tools and methodologies used to address the critical developmental areas.

• Use engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle to establish maintainable, reliable, and secure systems.

• Manipulate, collate, and analyze complex, high dimensional data from varying sources to solve difficult problems.

• Work in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth.

• Provide on call support and monitor the health of services in production as part of DevOps culture.

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve applications to support the business to drive and enable security across systems.

• Work closely with business and engineering partners during early SDLC phases to understand the business capabilities and goals for the program.

**Qualifications**

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in engineering/computer science.

• 4-6 years of professional software engineering experience designing, developing, and running enterprise applications.

• Experience in Object Oriented Programming, .NET framework, ASP.NET, MVC, Web API, C#, and SQL Server Programming along with experience in cloud services (Azure/ AWS)

• Good knowledge of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (SCCM) including application deployment, patch management, software updates, and client troubleshooting.

• Hands-on experience with Windows Server, Active Directory, and SQL Server integration for SCCM infrastructure management and reporting.

• Good to have experience in the latest versions of scripting languages like React, Angular JS, PowerShell etc.

and exposure to TFS/VSO and Git.

• Familiarity with SOA, distributed systems, and event driven architectures.

• Excellent coding skills, strong in OOPS, OOAD, design patterns and their application.

• Good understanding on security aspects of software like authentication, authorization, encryption, etc.

• Ability to both work independently and coordinate across geographies.

• Ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts to a variety of cross-group stakeholders.

• Strong organization skills, a bias for action, and ability to deliver results.

• Proven ability to deal with ambiguity and drive for clarity.

• Demonstrated ability to work efficiently, prioritize workflow, ramp quickly, and meet demanding deadlines.

**Preferred qualification:**

• Familiar with modern security models like OAuth and token-based authentication and authorization.

• Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.

• Experience using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD).

• Security and Identity domain experience.

• Familiarity with Machine Learning and applied AI concepts

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.

Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .

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