Do you have experience developing services in highly secure environments hosting high volume low latency mission critical services? Do you have a passion for security? Do you enjoy being part of a diverse and inclusive global team? Does being part of a mature DevOps organization and owning the customer experience of services your team develops inspire you? If yes, then we have an excellent opportunity for you.

The Product Release and Security Services (PRSS) engineering team manages a portfolio of services critical to Microsoft’s foundation of Trust. Code signing, anti-malware scanning, Microsoft Public Key Infrastructure (MSPKI), to name a few. Our unique engineering challenge is scale (billions of files processed per month), diversity of workloads (drivers to 4k AAA games), security (physical and logical), and compliance (WebTrust). We are running some of the highest security services and environments at Microsoft.

We’ve always been mission-driven; In today's world, where supply chain and security threats are every increasing and getting more sophisticated, PRSS services have become critical for the company to protect customers and partners. We’ve been growing rapidly, and need your help to take Microsoft's trust foundation to the next level.

Our teams builds the infrastructure fabric platform that helps engineers to develop and power all our services experience. You will be responsible for designing, building, and running fabric services which are the foundational part of our secure datacenters, these services include physical and virtual compute provisioning, identity management, Service Fabric, code integrity, secure imaging, and many more.

You will have:

* Autonomy and freedom to innovate

* Choice of the best of open source and Microsoft-internal technologies

* The ability to experiment and make data-driven decisions

* Lots of opportunity for impact as part of a growing team whose services are critical to every Microsoft Product.

Responsibilities

Software engineering leadership as a senior member of a team transitioning to a DevOps model

* Design, build, maintain and operate services with high traffic, high resiliency with millions of requests across multiple global regions

* Create a north star vision, design and implement the next generation of Platform infrastructure that is Secure, performant, resilient, modular, meets reliability targets, includes observability, and that enables next gen experiences.

* Continually seek deeper insights into the performance, scalability, maintainability of our systems

* Experiment, A/B test key hypothesis to make data driven decisions

* Improve service reliability, performance and latencies by reducing mean time to recovery (MTTR)

* Drive long-term design thinking for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets.

* Mentor and develop engineers across all levels through sharing and learning.

* Become part of a talented team that values diverse ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds and be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to solving problems. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

BSc/MSc in Computer Science or a related field

6+ years of experience in core software engineering building distributed systems

Azure or other Cloud-based development and deployment experience, including any of PaaS, IaaS, Serverless, and Container solutions

Strong troubleshooting (debugging) and performance tuning skills.

Experienced developer: your code is maintainable, elegant and testable.

Excellent teamwork and coordination skills with ability to create clarity from ambiguity

You actively mentor other engineers and show them how to go about things

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience in Cyber Security Research and Implementation

* One or more related certifications such as CISSP, GSEC, ISSAP, or GCIA

* Experience administering Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS and Imaging Automation

* PKI/Cryptography/Certificate Management experience

* Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and network architectures

* Experience with running in secure datacenters and services is a plus

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 Mircrosoft Cloud

- Background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.