Microsoft Principal Software Engineer 

United States, Washington 

780322825

secure development practices and architecturecloud computingand automation necessary to strengthen the resiliencyand security posture of our services and infrastructure

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years experience with common security vulnerabilities and associated mitigations
• 5+ years of experience with Azure services, including containers (AKS), App services, Azure Storage technologies, and best practices to secure these services
• 2+ years experience working as part of an engineering team, or as a partner of the engineering team, to implement secure development lifecycle practices
• 2+ years experience articulating business needs for security improvements

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ 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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• CISSP Certification and / or SANS Security Training
• Understanding of cryptography
• Experience in Network security
• Experience with Containers and Azure Kubernetes including security best practices
• Experience implementing Networking Security, API management, Identity and Access management

Other Requirements:

• This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.

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 January 13, 2025.

• Establish collaboration with Engineering teams in CSTE and across CELA on new features, services, and updates to the product
• Participate in threat model reviews and help identify security flaws early in the design phases
• Foster onboarding and adoption of Security Development Lifecycle (SDL)
• Help design implementation of Defense in Depth and Zero Trust strategies while ensuring secure by design, security by default, and secure by deployment principles
• Lead security architecture reviews
• Provide guidance and recommendations for secure development
• Fix security issues in code or infrastructure
• Participate in code reviews to evaluate security risks and improvements
• Lead cloud incident response activities as they occur
• Promote security awareness and provide training and good coding practices
• Supports operational security and security incidents as well as security reviews
• Help define, document, evolve, and evangelize secure engineering standards and best practices across multiple areas including automation
• Contribute to, and establish a strategic view of risk to our services and iterative and consistent security improvements
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