Senior Software Engineer Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

Any Developer. Any App. Any Platform.

Microsoft continues to make big investments to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Come join the team responsible for delivering the Visual Studio family of products. It's an incredibly rich space with many challenging technical problems begging for well-designed, well-executed and innovative solutions. We create modern tools & services that help developers build apps & services for a variety of platforms, including Windows, iOS, Android, Azure and many more.

The team builds developer tools (Visual Studio & Visual Studio Code), and designs & develops compilers & runtimes for C#, TypeScript (JavaScript) & C++.  In a 2018 survey done by stackoverflow.com, Visual Studio & Visual Studio Code were the top 2 most popular development environments & tools.  Our tools & services help a wide spectrum of developers all the way from professional developers to middle school students.

We create solutions together in a rich, collaborative environment and while we work hard together, work/life balance and having fun are also core values. Make your mark, make an impact, and make developers the most successful and productive developers in the world!

Read about, and try, the most recent releases of the Visual Studio family of products here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com.

Basic Qualifications:

5+ years of experience developing commercial software and/or services

Preferred Qualifications:

7+ years of experience developing commercial software and/or services

Strong design and development experience that includes development in C++ / C / C#, preferably with distributed programming models

Ability to go deep in security features

Engineering experience investigating and finding security flaws in large scale systems; prior experience in a security focused red team

Passion in building and designing very large-scale and secure systems; prior experience in building large scale online systems

Successful track record of having delivered cloud computing and virtualization-based services to customers.

Experience in Windows client, server OS security features and applied cryptography

The ability to multi-task while balancing short term and long-term needs

Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills

Ability to learn and grasp concepts quickly in a fast-paced environment is critical to success

Ability to triage customer requirements, prioritize, implement and iterate with customer for feedback

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.

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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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

We are looking for a Senior software engineer with a strong security background to help us deliver secure and trustworthy tools & services to significantly improve developers' productivity.

We are blending intelligent developer cloud services with rich client experiences to create innovative new developer productivity features like Visual Studio IntelliCode and Visual Studio Live Share.

To ensure these experiences are secure and resilient, we need security experts to help ensure that we have the right designs and security systems in place to build our customers' trust and confidence. You will partner with team members across the Visual Studio family, impacting every corner of Visual Studio, to help ensure Visual Studio remains a trusted part of our customer's daily life.

You will become part of a team where learning from peers and growing as a team is a core principle.