Overview
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.
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 secure 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. As Microsoft continues to evolve its secure infrastructure and elevate customer trust, the Secure Production Access (SPA) team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Virtualization team.
SPA is at the forefront of enabling secure access to production environments, ensuring that Microsoft services remain resilient, compliant, and secure. In this role, you will lead engineering efforts that modernize secure access experiences, rapidly scale internal products, and ensure world‑class reliability for services used daily by thousands of engineers. You will own complex technical areas end‑to‑end and collaborate extensively with teams across Microsoft. This role is based in Redmond, WA and requires working from the office at least three days per week.
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
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
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:
Additional or preferred qualifications
Masters 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 Bachelors 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.
7+ years of professional experience in software/network engineering roles, with a focus on cloud networking and network security.
Demonstrated history of handling enterprise network deployments and support.
Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure networking components - including Virtual Networks, subnets, VPN Gateways, ExpressRoute circuits, network security groups (NSGs), and load balancers.
Ability to design and manage Azure network architectures for high availability and security.
Demonstrated experience implementing high-availability network architectures and expertise with dynamic routing protocols like BGP to ensure optimal path selection and network redundancy.
Familiarity with techniques such as BGP route prepending and advertising more specific routes to prefer one path over another for failover is essential
Proven communication skills with an ability to work cross-functionally.
Experience collaborating closely with security engineering teams, Secure Production Access (SPA) teams, and other stakeholders to drive solutions.
Ability to document solutions and train engineers on networking best practices.
Relevant industry certifications are strongly preferred. Includes Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700), Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), or Azure Solutions Architect.
Network/security certifications such as CCNA/CCNP, CompTIA Security+, or related credentials would also be a plus - indicating validated expertise in networking and security domains
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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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.