Software Engineer II

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and maintain cloud-scale services and platform components for security-critical and highly regulated environments.
• Build features that support security, compliance, management, and reliability for internal and customer-facing services.
• Collaborate with security, operations, program management, and compliance teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Investigate and resolve live-site issues to ensure operational excellence and service reliability.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations to support service health and respond to incidents.
• Apply secure-by-design principles, including threat modeling and defense-in-depth practices, throughout the development lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 2+ years of technical engineering experience.
• Proficiency in coding with languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph.
• U.S. Citizenship.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of technical engineering experience or a Master's Degree in Computer Science.
• Experience building and supporting large-scale production services, including logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps systems, CI/CD pipelines, and code review tools.
• Strong debugging skills across operating systems, applications, and cloud environments.
• Familiarity with cloud computing, virtual machines, and networking.
• Experience with security disciplines such as event collection, detection engineering, or vulnerability management.

About the Company

Microsoft is a global leader in technology, dedicated to empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. The Sovereign Cloud Security team focuses on designing and securing highly reliable cloud-scale services for mission-critical environments that demand the highest levels of trust and compliance.