Edge and Security Services (ESS), part of Windows & Devices (W+D) org, provides integrated, intelligent, and secure services to all of Microsoft’s engineering teams to ingest, protect, and distribute Microsoft products at scale. Today, ESS is chartered with the following responsibilities:

• Lead and provide a comprehensive suite of PKI lifecycle management services. We maintain the highest standards of both logical and physical security to ensure that Microsoft’s brand is trusted and secure.
• CodeSign all products delivered to Microsoft’s customers. We sign all software binaries installed on a customer’s machine as well many of Microsoft’s services components.
• Provide cross-industry malware scanning capability to Microsoft. To help ensure that all product teams are compliant with policy, we provide an anti-malware scanning service that is powered by many of the major third-party Anti-Malware engines (including Windows Defender). 
• Provide regional “digital manufacturing” services to sign product bits, release, store, and distribute those to global customers.
• Manage Microsoft’s Product Activation and Licensing services.

Today, our services are actively utilized for Windows, Windows Server, & Office. Over 250M licenses are issued to our customers every month. Our unique engineering challenges are scale – we have close to 5B+ transactions per month, and a diversity of workloads – we sign and scan everything from drivers to 4k AAA games, and the stringent security requirements, both physical and logical, required to meet Microsoft's business needs. Ultimately, we are responsible for code signing, anti-malware scanning, and distributing software for all of Microsoft including Windows Updates, and what we do has a company-wide impact. Consequently, we are a global team, having development centers in 4 regions!

High level overview

As a Software Engineer, you are expected to provide critical thinking and a high degree of technical innovation and attention to detail while serving as a trusted advisor to your project team. You will need to balance many complex and competing technical priorities and be able to actively architect, design, develop, and test solutions.

Responsibilities

• Writing clean, well-thought out design and code with focus on quality, simplicity, and maintainability.
• Consider customer’s perspective and experiences when designing systems.
• Communicate effectively and collaborate well with other disciplines of the project team to deliver high quality solutions from envisioning to deployment to live site availability.
• Drive and coach others through design reviews, code reviews, and test case reviews.
• Responsible for understanding and adapting to new technologies, tools, methods and processes from Microsoft and industry.
• Help to drive current and future state Architecture for the group.
• Technology Evaluation and recommendation for architecture problems.
• Drive Architectural consolidation and simplification.
• Role Model Microsoft Values: through behaviors and actions.

Qualifications

Required educational qualification:

 BS in computer science or equivalent.

Skills (must have)

• Experience:
  • Total of 5+ years of demonstrated work experience in the Information Systems industry.
  • 3+ years of solid Design/Development/Testing experience using large/complex application using various Microsoft technologies (C#, .NET, SQL Server, BizTalk, Share Point etc.)
  • 2 years of system/solution architecture background.
• Architecture / Design:
  • Extensive understanding and hand on experience in integration, message orientation, event driven and other Enterprise architectural patterns.
  • Strong understanding of SOA, pros and cons and best practices.
  • Experience in Broad range of Microsoft tools and technologies.
  • Ability to evaluate architectural options (complexity, performance, high-availability, scalability, durability) and make right recommendation for implementation
• Engineering Practices:
  • Good experience on Requirement/Design/Code Review & Inspections practices
  • Experience with any of the following testing: performance testing, security testing, privacy testing, accessibility testing, and localization/globalization testing.
• Other skills:
  • Ability to work in cross functional teams and strong interpersonal skills
  • Domain knowledge in one or more vertical industry
  • Ability to handle ambiguity and collaborate across multiple groups and disciplines
  • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills with a solid understanding of testing practices

Skills (nice to have)

• Knowledge on Microsoft Azure technology.
• Knowledge on analytics, data mining, data visualization and machine learning
• Good understanding of agile development practices

Personal Screening (Screening) - 

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 Screen: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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. 

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