New 
Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jan 08, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. The Key Management team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help us achieve our vision. Our team creates groundbreaking technologies that enable customers to protect their most valuable assets using some of Azure's most secure hardware infrastructure. By joining our team, you'll have the opportunity to shape, build, and expand a large-scale platform for data protection and key distribution across many services in Azure. You'll work with some of the brightest minds in the security industry, make a significant impact, and develop your skills and career. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
Responsibilities* A successful candidate is responsible for creating a well-defined plan for testing and ensuring the quality of solutions. They define the success criteria for test outcomes, such as unit tests, and determine the most effective testing approach. They drive efforts to improve the test suite by adding new tests, removing outdated tests, and aggregating tests. They also continually integrate automation features into the testing process and make recommendations to the team to improve test coverage.* They optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to enhance performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment. They apply metrics to ensure code quality and stability and follow appropriate coding patterns and best practices.* They use debugging tools and analyze logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively verify assumptions and reactively address issues as they arise. They conduct retrospective debugging to identify the root causes of problems.* They drive the creation and execution of experiments to assess the effectiveness of changes, monitor developments in prototyping and testing, and interpret the results of experimentation.* They maintain the operations of live services on a rotational, on-call basis, implementing solutions and mitigations to complex issues that impact performance or functionality. They escalate issues as necessary and review and write retrospectives to share insights with the team.* They ensure that the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility. They provide evidence of compliance and develop a deep understanding of the implications of onboarding new technologies in accordance with Microsoft's compliance expectations.Other Embody ourCultureandValues | |