Software Engineer II

Overview

Microsoft Azure leads in advancing confidential computing (CC) technology, providing a new level of security for cloud workloads. Our vision is to transform the Azure Cloud into the Azure Confidential Cloud, moving the industry from clear to confidential computing. We are a team with a growth mindset, valuing continuous learning and collaborating with key Azure partners to deliver confidential computing solutions that secure Azure and its customers at every level.

As a Software Engineer II, you will design, develop, test, deploy, and support features that enable confidential computing for Azure customers, primarily focusing on performance analysis, improvements, and enhancements. You will help customers achieve the highest levels of privacy and security by delivering technology and solutions that protect data in use, complementing existing protections for data at rest and in transit. This role offers the opportunity to deepen your expertise in cloud infrastructure, operating at scale, and technologies that secure the cloud.

This position provides a chance to work on impactful projects that shape the future of secure cloud computing while collaborating with teams across Microsoft and the broader industry community.

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.

Responsibilities

• Identify and address performance issues related to delivering confidential computing solutions.
• Find performance opportunities for improvement through internal testing as well as by working directly with Azure internal and external customers to understand their use cases.
• Collaborate with teams across Microsoft and with external partners to deliver performance optimizations for our customers.
• Ensures appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value are incorporated.
• Develops reusable code and leverages existing code and tools.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• 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.
• Shares learnings and identified solutions from investigations with the team and owns for some design decisions.

Embody our Culture and Values.

Qualifications

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.

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.
• 1+ year(s) of experience in:
• Developing and shipping software or services.
• Designing, coding, and debugging software solutions.
• Building and operating large-scale cloud services.
• Software performance analysis and improvements.
• Working with operating systems such as Linux.
• 1+ years of experience in system performance areas:
• Performance monitoring tools and analysis methods, such as Intel V-Tune or Linux perf.
• Performance-related computer architecture concepts, including page translation, caching, I/O subsystems, memory subsystems, virtualization, NUMA optimizations, voltage/frequency scaling, and power states.
• System software performance tuning, including compiler optimizations, operating system scheduling, hypervisors, memory management, and BIOS configurations.
• Benchmarking using industry standard and purpose-built workloads, including SPEC suites, TPC components, Redis, NGINX, and similar workloads.
• 1+ year(s) of experience demonstrating:
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies.
• Working effectively in an agile development environment.

Key skills/competency

• Confidential Computing
• Azure Cloud Platform
• Performance Analysis
• Cloud Security
• C/C++/C#/Java/JavaScript/Python
• Operating Systems (Linux)
• System Performance Tuning
• Benchmarking
• Large-scale Cloud Services
• Agile Development