Senior Software Engineer - C++

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of secure, reliable, and performance Global Secure Access endpoint components, using C/C++ or Rust.
• Own complex, ambiguous problem areas spinning operating-systems internals, kernel-mode development, user-mode services, computer networking and cloud integration.
• Use proficient networking knowledge to design secure traffic-handling solutions and lead investigations of complex connectivity issues across the networking stack.
• Make architectural tradeoffs involving security, performance, compatibility, maintainability, observability, and safe deployment across diverse customer environments.
• Collaborate with endpoint, identity, security, and cloud-service teams to define interfaces, align technical direction, and deliver cohesive end-to-end experiences.
• Raise engineering standards through design and code reviews, threat modeling, automated testing, production diagnostics, and mentoring other engineers.

Qualifications

Required 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++, or Rust 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

• 3+ years of experience with computer networking, including protocols such as IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, or TLS.
• 3+ years of experience developing software involving Windows internals, kernel-mode components, device drivers, or low-level operating-system APIs.
• 3+ years of experience developing or debugging systems software using C, C++, or Rust, including applying secure development, concurrency, memory-management, and performance principles.
• Experience leading the design and delivery of complex systems software across multiple components or engineering teams.
• Experience developing Windows kernel-mode drivers or networking components using technologies such as.