Senior Software Engineer_Azure Networking Security

Microsoft Azure operates one of the largest Internet Protocol (IP) networks in the world, connecting millions of servers across hundreds of data centers to customers globally. This infrastructure supports a wide range of services and requires robust security measures to ensure reliability and trust.

The Azure Networking Security team plays a critical role in safeguarding the routers and switches that form the backbone of this network. The team includes software engineers and network engineers who are responsible for automating and deploying security-related changes across network devices within Azure Networking.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Azure Networking, you will play a pivotal role in developing solutions that directly supports Microsoft's mission-critical infrastructure by enhancing the reliability, integrity, and security posture of Azure's global network. Engineers collaborate across multiple domains to deliver impactful solutions that protect Azure's backbone and enable secure cloud operations at scale.

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• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.

• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

• Creates, implements, optimises, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.

• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.

• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

• Applies best practices to build code based on well-established methods and secure design principles while also applying best practices for new code development and formal validation of security invariants. Drives product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and security promises.

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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  
  o 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:

• 1+ years experience in Python development, including experience designing and building scalable systems, automation frameworks, or network-related tooling.
• 1+ years experience with common network protocols, such as TCP, BGP, IP routing, IPv6 etc., experience on networking router configuration.
• 1+ years experience with network security.

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