The Azure Front Door WAF team at Microsoft is seeking a Software Engineer II to develop and operate the Web Application Firewall.  Responsibilities include building robust services to safeguard the platform at various layers, protecting customer services using cutting-edge technologies, and writing highly scalable, efficient, and reliable code.  The role involves working across multiple system layers, collaborating with partner teams, and contributing to design documents and feature implementation.  The position requires experience with data structures, algorithms, asynchronous & multithreaded designs, and building scalable, distributed cloud services.  This is a hybrid role offering flexibility to work from home or the office.

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<div class="ms-Stack css-418"><h3 style="font-weight: 600; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);">Overview</h3><div><p style="margin: 0px;"><span>With increased need to safeguard customers and Microsoft services, Azure Frontdoor WAF team is expanding to meet these growing needs. Azure Front Door delivers a geographically-distributed internet-facing set of services that provide acceleration, caching , protection and highly customizable traffic processing. As part of Azure Frontdoor WAF team delivers products to safeguard distributed services that can process requests at extremely low latency, in an high-scale manner, at terabits per second of traffic and millions of requests per second, with extreme reliability.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><br><span>As a member of this team in Azure Front Door, you will be responsible for developing and operating the Web Application Firewall, building robust services for safeguarding the platform system at different system layers and protecting our customer services using the latest technologies across platforms . You will write and operate code that is super-scale but lightweight, maintainable, efficient and reliable. Your work will be critical in enhancing the performance, quality, density and reliability of the platform. This opportunity will allow you to work on various layers of stack, innovate and also a chance to work with multiple partner teams to deliver complex solutions. This position offers the flexibility to work from home or the office, depending on what best suits your needs.</span><br><br><span>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.</span></p></div></div> <div class="ms-Stack css-418"><h3 style="font-weight: 600; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);">Qualifications</h3><div><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Required Qualifications: </span></p><ul><li><span>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, Rust, or Python</span><ul><li><span>OR equivalent experience</span></li></ul></li><li><span>1+ years of experience in data structures, algorithms, programming, asynchronous &amp; multithreaded designs</span></li><li><span>1+ years of experience with building scalable and distributed cloud services</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Other Requirements:</span></p><p style="margin: 0in;">&nbsp;</p><ul type="disc" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><span>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: </span></li><ul type="circle" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><span>Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.</span></li></ul></ul><p style="margin: 0in;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Preferred Qualifications: </span></p><ul><li><span>Experience with build security or networking services</span></li><li><span>Experience with building and shipping cloud services</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"><span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span>#azurecorejobs</span></p></div></div> <div class="ms-Stack css-418"><h3 style="font-weight: 600; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);">Responsibilities</h3><div><ul><li><span>Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.</span></li><li><span>Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.</span></li><li><span>Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.</span></li><li><span>Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.</span></li><li><span>Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.</span></li><li><span>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.</span></li></ul></div></div> <div class="ms-Stack css-418" style="padding: 30px 0px; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ms-Stack css-418" style="padding: 0px 0px 30px;"><span>Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.</span></div><div><div class="KDE7kZPL_kjXdvl00Oro"><span><i data-icon-name="Medical" role="img" aria-label="Industry leading healthcare" class="ms-Icon root-32 css-567 css-330" style="font-family: FabricMDL2Icons-4;"></i>Industry leading healthcare</span></div><div class="KDE7kZPL_kjXdvl00Oro"><span><i data-icon-name="Education" role="img" aria-label="Educational resources" class="ms-Icon root-32 css-569 css-330" style="font-family: FabricMDL2Icons-1;"></i>Educational resources</span></div><div class="KDE7kZPL_kjXdvl00Oro"><span><i data-icon-name="Tag" role="img" aria-label="Discounts on products and services" class="ms-Icon root-32 css-393 css-330" style="font-family: FabricMDL2Icons;"></i>Discounts on products and services</span></div><div class="KDE7kZPL_kjXdvl00Oro"><span><i data-icon-name="Money" role="img" aria-label="Savings and investments" class="ms-Icon root-32 css-567 css-330" style="font-family: FabricMDL2Icons-4;"></i>Savings and investments</span></div><div class="KDE7kZPL_kjXdvl00Oro"><span><i data-icon-name="ContactHeart" role="img" aria-label="Maternity and paternity leave" class="ms-Icon root-32 css-571 css-330" style="font-family: FabricMDL2Icons-17;"></i>Maternity and paternity leave</span></div><div class="KDE7kZPL_kjXdvl00Oro"><span><i data-icon-name="DateTime2" role="img" aria-label="Generous time away" class="ms-Icon root-32 css-573 css-330" style="font-family: FabricMDL2Icons-3;"></i>Generous time away</span></div><div class="KDE7kZPL_kjXdvl00Oro"><span><i data-icon-name="Heart" role="img" aria-label="Giving programs" class="ms-Icon root-32 css-393 css-330" style="font-family: FabricMDL2Icons;"></i>Giving programs</span></div><div class="KDE7kZPL_kjXdvl00Oro"><span><i data-icon-name="ConnectContacts" role="img" aria-label="Opportunities to network and connect" class="ms-Icon root-32 css-575 css-330" style="font-family: FabricMDL2Icons-8;"></i>Opportunities to network and connect</span></div></div></div>

Software Engineer II