Full-Stack Software Engineer ll

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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 authentic selves each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around 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.

If you're driven to join a dynamic team, building cutting-edge systems with a profound impact, Microsoft invites you to explore an opportunity within the Secure Production Access team, part of Microsoft’s CISO organization. The Secure Production Access Team is looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer ll. The Secure Production Access team is a dynamic, supportive community of engineers and program managers committed to delivering top-tier cybersecurity solutions in a highly collaborative and inclusive environment. This team is committed to protecting users and valuable enterprise assets. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

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.

This Hybrid Position is located at our Microsoft office in Redmond, Washington. Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to relocate or reside within 50 miles of the field location.

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+ years of experience with scripting or automation languages (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Python) and managing large-scale engineering services or critical production systems.
• 1+ years of experience with core infrastructure concepts such as Operating Systems, Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Live Site Operations—including incident response, monitoring, and service reliability improvements.

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.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their U.S. permanent residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's 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 Master'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.
• Hands-on experience with networking and infrastructure troubleshooting across on-premises or cloud environments.
• Experience with enterprise-scale virtualization technologies (e.g., Hyper-V, VMware, KVM) and certificate management solutions.
• Familiarity with system-level programming using languages such as C, C++, Rust, or equivalent low-level languages.
• Understanding of core cybersecurity principles and practices, including threat modeling, secure coding, and risk mitigation.

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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 26th, 2025.

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• Adhere to modern engineering practices, effective coding, unit tests, debugging, code reviewing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Own, triage, and resolve production issues with an emphasis on broad communication, learning & sharing throughout the process.
• Keep a keen eye on opportunities to translate business requirements into technical specifications and help manage priorities, deliverables, and timelines.
• Author functional and technical documentation. Communicate on a deep technical level with product engineering, project management and operations teams to improve products, optimize infrastructure, and evolve services.
• Read, write, configure, design, and script end-to-end service telemetry, smart alerting, and self-healing capabilities for platforms.
• Remain current on new Security trends and technologies.
• Collaborate first and foremost; ability to exercise cross-team co-operation and influence.
• Embody our Culture and Values