Software Engineer II

Overview

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 Software Engineer II to join Microsoft Entra's Global Secure Access (GSA) AI Agent Firewall team. Our team operates at the intersection of networking, security, and AI technologies, delivering cloud services that enable people and AI Agents to work securely from anywhere while meeting companies' compliance needs. We are hiring a Software Engineer II to help build, and evolve heavily integrated platforms at scale. You'll work on cutting-edge solutions, creating a seamless, integrated stack that empowers productivity and security worldwide. If you're passionate about designing networking systems that combine AI innovation with enterprise-grade security, this is your chance to make an impact.

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

Responsibilities

• Work with the Product and Engineering team members to design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions with AI-first development approach
• Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas
• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach
• Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site
• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors 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.

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:

• Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ 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 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Exposure to networking and network security fundamentals, including TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS.
• Hands on experience with developing and running services on Linux / Unix environments is a plus
• Hands-on experience with AI as a user and as developer: LLMs, Azure OpenAI, MCP, RAG, Agents is a plus
• Hands-on experience with IAM, IdPs, OAuth, etc is a plus
• Hands-on experience with high-performance datapaths and L7 proxies (e.g., Envoy, NGINX, HAProxy) and/or packet processing (e.g., eBPF, DPDK, XDP) is a plus
• Hands on experience with K8s, containers and deployment pipelines is a plus

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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

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.