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Senior Software Engineer - Network Engineer

United States, Redmond 119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year · Job Posted April 16, 2026
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The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. 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 secure 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. As Microsoft continues to evolve its secure infrastructure and elevate customer trust, the Secure Production Access (SPA) team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Virtualization team. SPA is at the forefront of enabling secure access to production environments, ensuring that Microsoft services remain resilient, compliant, and secure. In this role, you will lead engineering efforts that modernize secure access experiences, rapidly scale internal products, and ensure world‑class reliability for services used daily by thousands of engineers. You will own complex technical areas end‑to‑end and collaborate extensively with teams across Microsoft. This role is based in Redmond, WA and requires working from the office at least three days per week.

Job Responsibility

  • Design, implement, and manage Azure network infrastructure: Build and maintain Azure virtual networks, secure HRE network segments, and connectivity solutions to ensure high availability, scalability, and robust security
  • Network Security & Infrastructure Management: Configure and administer network firewalls and proxy servers, VPN, enforce security policies, and monitor network traffic to protect critical systems and data
  • Automation & Deployment: Develop automation scripts and tooling (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Bicep) to streamline network configurations, deployments, and monitoring to remove person dependency. Lead the deployment of network updates and infrastructure changes, implementing infrastructure-as-code practices for consistency and efficiency
  • Incident Response: Serve as the Tier 3 escalation point for complex network and infrastructure incidents. Perform in-depth troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for issues related to Azure networking, HRE connectivity, firewall/proxy configurations, and system performance. Ensure timely resolution of incidents to minimize downtime and impact on users
  • Performance Optimization & Compliance: Continuously analyze network performance and security postures. Implement optimizations to improve throughput, reliability, and security. Ensure all network changes and operations comply with organizational security standards and regulatory requirements

Requirements

  • 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 equivalent experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
  • 7+ years of professional experience in software/network engineering roles, with a focus on cloud networking and network security
  • Demonstrated history of handling enterprise network deployments and support
  • Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure networking components – including Virtual Networks, subnets, VPN Gateways, ExpressRoute circuits, network security groups (NSGs), and load balancers
  • Ability to design and manage Azure network architectures for high availability and security
  • Demonstrated experience implementing high-availability network architectures and expertise with dynamic routing protocols like BGP to ensure optimal path selection and network redundancy
  • Familiarity with techniques such as BGP route prepending and advertising more specific routes to prefer one path over another for failover is essential
  • Proven communication skills with an ability to work cross-functionally
  • Experience collaborating closely with security engineering teams, Secure Production Access (SPA) teams, and other stakeholders to drive solutions
  • Ability to document solutions and train engineers on networking best practices

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
  • Relevant industry certifications are strongly preferred. Includes Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700), Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), or Azure Solutions Architect
  • Network/security certifications such as CCNA/CCNP, CompTIA Security+, or related credentials would also be a plus – indicating validated expertise in networking and security domains

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