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In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with engineers who enable a broad set of Azure services to be consumed by external customers in highly secured and regulated industries. The systems and software you build will be required to meet the security policy and assurance requirements of both public and private sector customers.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Other Requirements:

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:

• Candidates must have an active TS/SCI and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification : This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• 6+ years of industry experience in engineering, product management, or technical program management with an emphasis on government and industry customers that are mission focused and/or deal with sensitive and classified workloads.
• Experience bringing new approaches or different ways of doing things to an existing problem space.
• Demonstrated situational awareness. You will be working closely with other product group people across Microsoft (Directors, Group Managers etc.) you will also work closely with customer leadership, engineers, and system administrators. You will have to be able to adjust your approach to the specific audience.
• Deep understanding and experience of the Intelligence and/or Security domain(s), key challenges, priorities, and stakeholders
• Previous experience and success in an engineering role where you delivered cloud services along with demonstrated experience of engineering practices and engaging engineering teams so that you can express and drive new feature requirements in Azure.
• Proven initiative and influence with demonstrated ability to solve challenging and complex problems requiring the effort and impact of a diverse cross team.
• Experience tailoring processes and governance structures to balance rigor and consistent results while moving fast and driving innovation.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 13th 2025.

• Drive and effectively manage strategic and complex projects with executive visibility and critical dependencies across a variety of cross functional teams.
• Develop a deep understanding of how government customers use Azure and their need for differentiating technologies with data sensitivity top of mind.
• Engage colleagues across a large, diverse, and distributed organization to drive decisive action that delivers results for expanding the market for Azure across international governments
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, marketing, compliance, finance, legal, and other Microsoft teams to translate customer demand signals into platform priorities to unblock Azure growth.
• Remove customer barriers to cloud adoption by ensuring government-relevant infrastructure, security, and identity requirements are built into Azure services to support sensitive government workloads
• Establish and drive the rhythm of business (meeting cadence), core set of stakeholders, and right sized reporting to offer rigor and transparency while still allowing the team to move fast
• Traditional PM functions: quality control, risk management, developing and tracking project schedules, communicating to key stakeholders, effective and efficient decision making, meeting deadlines
• Be Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, engage Engineering teams to remove blockers.

You will be accountable for:

• Service / Product Definition – Partner with engineering teams to design architecture and integrate customer solutions that address priority customers and broad market needs. Define program goals and prioritize feature requests into feature release milestones. Define success criteria and performance metrics while managing delivery and actively identify and mitigate risks using data driven approaches.
• Service / Product Development – Drive cross functional team orchestration for complex delivery of features against the service/product roadmap. Develop, track, coordinate, and manage risk of end-to-end project delivery schedules at tactical and executive levels. Understand critical path and dependencies to hold stakeholders accountable adjusting as needed to ensure successful project delivery.
• Service / Product Performance – Identify, collect, and summarize performance metrics to derive deep insights to lead to course corrections and optimizations. Leverage customer listening, telemetry, root cause analysis to form hypothesis and make data drive recommendations to engineering teams

Embody our and .

As a Software Engineer II in this team, you will contribute to Azure host networking infrastructure by designing and deploying agents that integrate hardware and software components to ensure consistent and efficient networking for current and future Azure hosts. You will also develop Network Interface Card (NIC) servicing software to support AI and other Azure workloads at scale.

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++, Rust, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) technical experience working in low level systems development (Ex. networking, drivers, etc.).
• 1+ year(s) technical experience with computer networking, and general cloud technologies.

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:

• 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++,Rust C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python
  • OR Master'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 Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 22, 2025.

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

for the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge world. The Microsoft Corporate Strategy Team is a small, specialized group that advises our CEO and executive leadership team on driving, assessing, and prioritizing the long-term strategic direction and growth for the company across its portfolio of existing and new offerings. The team has builta track recordof spotting trends early andthroughout the company. The group broadly focuses on three sets of activities:

• Thought leadership on the future state of the industry (e.g., economics of the cloud) and potential impact to Microsoft’s overall strategy

• Counsel to executives on multi-billion dollardecisions (inclusive of “needle moving” growth drivers, large strategic acquisitions and partnerships, portfolio optimization, etc.)

• Internal projects to ensure Microsoft’s processes and operations enable the company to grow and achieve our mission

As a member of Microsoft’s Corporate Strategy Team, you will drive formal quantitative and qualitative analytical decision support on high-priority, cross-company strategic issues. Example project areasideation, andcompetitive analysis and game theory.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• , Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years, marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
  • ORMaster's Degree in Business Administrationor related field AND 3+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., scaling a business, incubation, driving change in a large company, entrepreneurship, management consulting).
• 2+ years experience in Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance

or Preferred Qualifications

• , Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
  • ORMaster’s Degree in Business Administrationor related fieldAND 6+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., scaling a business, incubation, driving change in a large company,entrepreneurship).
• 6+yearsexperiencein Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 22, 2025.

Corporate Strategy

• Develop and deliver divisional level analysis, options, execution plans, and recommendations based on analytical rigor, logic, and subject matter expertise
• Proactively spot strategic opportunities missed by others and plot insightful approaches to address them
• Investigates and provides an analysis of competitors, partners, business models, market sizing, and industry trends. Investigates and provides analysis of the merger and acquisition (M&A), venture funding, and public market environment and trends. Conducts market landscape analyses and reviews of companies of potential interest.
• Develops an understanding of Microsoft’s product portfolio, strategic priorities, competitive position, gaps, and potential opportunities. Investigates and provides an analysis of the merger and acquisition (M&A), venture funding and public market environment and trends. Supports and reviews product roadmap, go-to-market, integration plans, and related Issues.

Research, Analysis, & Framing

• Conducts market-based research by identifying and gathering information (e.g., financial statements, reports, analyses, stakeholder feedback, expert calls); interprets information with guidance from tenured colleagues as needed, including researching existing business and identifying new spaces for Microsoft; conducts analyses (e.g., financial modeling) to validate proposed ideas and inform business decisions.
• Assists in refining initial framing established by project lead for strategic questions and applies structure to analysis.

Problem Solving & Insight

• Guide project team problem solving through development of frameworks/methodologies to create insightful analysis and recommendations; identify the right question to frame the team’s work
• Synthesizes findings into insights within a project, including implications that inform business decisions; leverages insights to support strategic recommendations for Microsoft, with guidance from project leads.

Communication

• Produce high-quality executive communications and arguments to facilitate discussions and decision making
• Deliver project findings, recommendations, and implications to executives clearly and succinctly
• Communicates and advocates insights to business leaders (e.g., Senior Managers, Directors) and conveys viewpoints through written documents (e.g., memos, reports) and influence models (e.g., meetings, presentations) through multiple iterations of feedback and vetting, creating and executing outlines.
• Delivers project findings, recommendations, and implications to business partners to facilitate discussions and decision making.

Business Partner Relationships

• Deliver project findings, recommendations, and implications to executives clearly and succinctly
• Establishes and maintains key points of contact with internal teams (e.g., Finance, Marketing, Engineering). Builds working relationships with project stakeholders and business partners.
• Shares knowledge with business leaders (e.g., Senior Managers, Directors) on a particular area of expertise, leveraging and broadening deep technical/product knowledge and market awareness for a domain to inform strategic business decisions.

• Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years' experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of program or project management experience in cloud infrastructure, hardware operations, or supply chain coordination.
• 1+ years of experience delivering software features in a fast-paced online services environment.
• Familiarity with data center infrastructure and rack-level planning.
  1+ years experience working with engineering teams to translate business and technical requirements into structured documentation.
  Proficient organizational and communication skills, with attention to detail and follow-through.

Other Qualifications:

• 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:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management
  • OR software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Understanding of Data center design/build, hardware lifecycle, vendor management, and inventory/supply chain logistics.
• Exposure to InfiniBand, RDMA, GPU backend networking environments, Capacity delivery (GPU preferred) planning, supply and execution business.
• 2+ years experience with infrastructure telemetry, or deployment tooling. Interest in automation, process optimization, and scalable frameworks.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and adapt to changing priorities.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 15th, 2025.

• Responsible for ensuring system readiness for buildout when expensive GPU racks arrive at the datacenter.
• Collaborate with engineering partners across datacenter, networking and supply chain organizations to ensure all the logical artifacts and metadata—rack layouts, cabling maps, firmware matrices, and configuration templates - are created for deployments out of critical path.
• Coordinate with supply chain/logistics and infrastructure buildout teams to ensure readiness of materials and supporting infrastructure.
• Participate in cross-functional syncs to ensure alignment and resolve blockers in the pre-dock phase. Drive risk mitigation and close readiness gaps.
• Drive continuous process improvements and automation efforts in planning and pre-dock execution workflows.

In this role,you will have the opportunity to work with engineers who enable a broad set of Azure services to be consumed by internal and external customers in highly secured and regulated industries. The systems and software you build will be required to meet the security policy and assurance requirements of both public and private sector customers.

Required/Minimum 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 Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification : This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check : This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance

Preferred / Additional Qualifications

• Experience in development in the Kubernetes ecosystem
• Experience in building large scale cloud services, distributed systems, or operating systems
• Experience with improving service operations or engineering fundamentals.
• Experience building and shipping production software or services.
• Experience developing applications hosted on top of Azure, AWS, or other similar cloud platforms
• Experience problem solving and debugging skills
• Proficient collaboration skills.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

The scale of our operations is enormous. Microsoft's products and services are overwhelmingly consumed online, and billions of people use them every day. We need people who enjoy analyzing complicated problems, coming up with creative solutions, working in focused teams to build things no-one has thought of before, all in the service of production reliability.

• Defines and develops standardized, repeatable, scalable solutions to guarantee quality.
• Develops “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
• Improves test coverage for services, organizes and implements integration tests, and resolves problem areas.
• Considers testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understands when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
• Contributes to the development of automation within production and deployment of a complex product feature. Runs code in simulated, or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products with little to no oversight.
• Contributes to efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility. Checks for visible evidence to demonstrate compliance for product areas.
• Develops and holds an understanding of the implications of onboarding new technologies following expectations of compliance at Microsoft.
• Drives efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring).
• Drives the refinement of products through data analytics and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration.
• Drives efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms.
• Drives sustaining feedback loops from telemetry resulting in subsequent designs. Creates outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards.
• Responds within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Drives efforts to reduce incident volume, looking globally at incidences and providing broad resolutions.
• Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis.
• Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site service and escalates as necessary.
• Reviews and writes issues postmortem and shares insights with the team.
• Embody our and .

As a Software Engineer II, you will help us build and architect new services and experiences that will extend our portfolio of world-class solutions for protecting M365. You will be responsible for building and driving new investments to solve hard problems, defining architecture, partnering with teammates, and ensuring high code quality, availability, scalability, and security of our services. You will have opportunities to learn and grow in your role developing services in Azure. You will partner effectively with other members of our team and partner teams to deliver value and impact to Microsoft security products.

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 Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year of hands on experience with cloud platforms and safe deployment practices
• 1+ year experience being on-call, analyzing incidents, identifying broader risk patterns, iteratively improving incident response processes

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:

• 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
  • OR Master'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 Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with public key infrastructures (PKI), digital certificates, or secrets management solutions.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for this role until April 16th, 2025.

• Improve application security maturity at scale by designing, implementing, and building security solutions.
• Partner with product managers and security leaders to ensure security maturity work is being prioritized and addressed across Microsoft 365 services.
• Building prototypes and proof-of-concept code, working alongside the engineering teams to provide advice on secure design and implementation.
• Providing design guidance and security reviews to engineering teams and improving security maturity.
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined, modularized, secure, reliable, testable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable.
• Solve significant technological challenges impacting the team and our customers esp. those related to service to service authentication and credential management
• Partner and collaborate with peer engineers and customers to deliver impact on our products. Work closely with our internal/external partners to support the team’s mission.
• Participate and provide high quality feedback in design reviews, code reviews and other team activities.
• Build automation to prevent and/or remediate service problems from becoming production incidents.