Microsoft Azure is undergoing explosive growth as customers around the world realize the benefits of moving their services and applications to the cloud. Security is the foremost concern for our customers as they move their services outside their datacenters. The charter of the Azure Security group is to ensure that Azure is the most secure and resilient cloud platform. The group owns core security services spanning across the Azure stack, providing low level platform security as well as protection for customer applications running in the cloud. We are responsible for identity and access management, secrets/key management, disk encryption and data protection, Trusted Launch and Attestation of the platform as well as customer VMs, Linux platform security, and other security capabilities for the Azure platform running at the cloud scale.
We are looking for experienced software engineers acting as a technical lead to define, architect, and implement cloud-scale services and integrated solutions. In this position, you will own end to end aspects of building and running highly available distributed security services providing mission critical functionality for Azure. With security being top priority for Azure, this role gives an excellent and highly visible opportunity to make a significant impact in securing Microsoft's vision of the cloud.
Required Qualifications: 10+ years of software development experience in a product group. Preferred Qualifications: Ability to learn and grasp concepts quickly in a fast-paced environment is critical to success. Passion in building and designing hyper scale systems; prior experience in building large scale distributed systems is a big plus. The ability to multi-task while balancing short term and long term needs is essential. Knowledge of security technologies is highly desirable but not required. Strong design and development experience, preferably with distributed programming models. Demonstrated