Job Details
Posted date: Sep 05, 2025
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $158,000
Range: $100,600 - $215,400
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
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.
The Infrastructure and Developer Platform (IDP) team within the Microsoft Threat Protection (MTP) organization builds and maintains the infrastructure and developer platform that almost all Defender products (Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Identity, etc.) rely on. This platform allows engineers across MTP to more easily deploy their services, lower costs, and increase security and reliability across our fleet. This position will specifically focus on Azure Kubernetes Security within the organization. We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join our team! The IDP team is at the heart of Microsoft's security infrastructure, providing the essential tools and frameworks that empower our engineers to innovate and deliver cutting-edge security solutions. Our platform is designed to streamline the deployment process, enhance cost-efficiency, and bolster the security and reliability of our services. By leveraging the latest technologies and best practices, we ensure that our Defender products operate seamlessly and securely, protecting millions of users worldwide 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.
Own the C# SDK: Design, build, and maintain extensible, maintainable .NET Software Development Kit (SDK) abstractions for defining Azure resources and services; deliver intuitive, discoverable APIs that maximize developer productivity. Code quality & reviews: Lead rigorous code reviews aligned to Microsoft and team standards; ensure diagnosability, reliability, maintainability, and adherence to proven patterns and best practices. Optimize & refactor: Debug, profile, and refactor C# code for performance, allocation efficiency, and async correctness; use metrics to drive stability and quality. Diagnostics & telemetry: Apply structured logging, tracing, and telemetry to validate assumptions proactively and accelerate root-cause analysis. Test strategy & automation: Define success criteria; author and evolve unit/integration/contract tests; maintain automation-first practices in pipelines. Architecture & design: Write design docs, validate hypotheses, and contribute to architecture proposals; ensure solutions meet security, privacy, and compliance expectations. Dependency management: Identify upstream/downstream dependencies across Azure services; optimize dependency chains and coordinate with partner teams. Safe releases: Implement repeatable, standardized build/deploy practices (pre-prod validation, canarying, feature flags, rollbacks) for SDK releases. Reliability & on-call : monitor health, respond within Service Level Agreements, reduce incident volume, and author postmortems. Telemetry-driven iteration: Instrument SDK for usage, reliability, and performance; build dashboards and feedback loops to inform Application Programming Interface (API) design and roadmap. Developer productivity advocacy: Build and share tools (e.g., Roslyn analyzers, source generators, templates), samples, and docs to accelerate adoption. Customer & partner feedback: Incorporate insights from Azure customers and partner teams; ensure continuous measurement of developer value and satisfaction.Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
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 PythonOR equivalent experience.2+ years of experience programming in modern back-end languages such as C#/.NetOther 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 qualificationsMaster’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience coding in C#/.NET; ORBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience coding in C#/.NET; OR equivalent experience.
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
Single reqs: Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 30, 2025.
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.
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