Software Engineer II

at  Microsoft

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.
The M365 Security team focuses on access control and protection solutions for Microsoft cloud infrastructure. We are seeking a Software Engineer II for our team. In this role, you will be responsible for building and maintaining services responsible for access control for Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. We own the solutions that manage secure and compliant access to the cloud infrastructure for service deployment, troubleshooting and analysis. We contribute directly to Microsoft runs on trust mission protecting customer data and privacy. We build and leverage advanced technologies in access control, authentication, authorization and secret management space.
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.

• 1+ year experience building and maintaining distributed systems or microservices.

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:

• Technical drive, demonstrated problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently.
• Experience in building restful APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).
• Basic understanding of networking and infrastructure services.
• Experience optimizing automation, reliability, and monitoring.
• Deep customer focus and data driven approach.
• Azure knowledge is added advantage.
  Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $79,600 - CAD $153,000 per year.
  Find additional pay information here:
  https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
  Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 6, 2024

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop code to complete designs and test interfaces that solve classes of problems, enable integration across groups of components, improve reuse, and satisfy business, customer, engineering, and operational requirements.
• Adhere to modern engineering practices, effective coding, writing unit test cases, debugging, code reviewing and creating CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipelines.
• Conduct testing and code reviews to ensure quality code is released to production systems.
• Build functional and technical documentation.
• Identify and triage bugs, develop fixes to code defects.

Other

• Embody our culture and values

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