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Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

​​Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries.

​​​​The Security and Compliance team within Azure Databases is on a mission to offer the most secure database services on the planet – from on-premises data centers to the cloud. Security, compliance, and data privacy are top concerns for our customers and the Security & Compliance team plays a pivotal role in drawing new businesses to our platform by being “built on trust”.

We are hiring a Software Engineer II who is proficient in all layers of the technology stack (from infrastructure to front-end) to help drive security and compliance improvements across our fleet of products. As a Software Engineer II on the Azure Databases “Green Team”, you will work at the intersection between engineering and security to identify and apply shift-left mitigations to improve our infrastructure and application security posture. In this role, you will help to improve security outcomes through coding, architectural changes, and evangelization of security best practices.

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Responsibilities

​​​​Software engineering for scale – The Azure Databases Green Team is an engineering team and will be building at-scale solutions for Azure Databases. Engineers need a deep understanding of the broader system to provide solutions that improve the security posture in a standardized way. This involves creating libraries for standardized security functions, proof-of-concept code, and foundational changes to enable the Azure Database platform to operate securely.

Cross-organization collaboration – The Azure Database Green Team is a partner team to other Microsoft/Azure security teams that are tasked with other aspects of security like compliance, network monitoring, SDL, and Azure’s own internal red-teams. Understanding what these teams are doing, the problems they face, and working on complementary efforts is key.  

Security Design and Architecture – The Azure Databases Green Team is a security team. It operates on the forefront of emerging threats which affect cloud services and infrastructure. This includes understanding the attack vectors, behaviors, and tools that are being used in the wild as well as the most modern defenses. Using this knowledge, we provide durable solutions which help all teams in Azure Databases to provide secure and trusted platforms.​ ​

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Qualifications

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.​

• Experience configuring resources on any of the major cloud offerings (Azure, AWS, GCP)

• Demonstrated site reliability engineering experience (e.g. operating a service and handling on-call responsibilities)​

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/Additional Qualifications

• Experience with containerization/microservice technologies (Service Fabric, Kubernetes).

• Proficiency in scripting and analysis tools (e.g., Kusto, Splunk, Python, PowerShell).

• Previous experience in identity or security domain areas.

• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment system paradigms..​ ​

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