Job Description:
Software Engineer II - 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. Security 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. We are looking for a passionate Software Engineer to join the Secure Production Access (SPA) team within Microsoft's IDC CISO organization. This team builds secure, scalable, and resilient services that protect Microsoft's most privileged environments—including the SAW, custom security applications, identity tooling, and supporting infrastructure. You will collaborate across engineering, security, and operations groups to translate complex business and security requirements into robust, production-grade solutions while driving performance, reliability, and customer experience. You will build and enhance the App Packaging service to enable secure, scalable deployment of diverse applications across SAW devices, including external integrations, SCCM and SQL Server infrastructure management, workflow automation, and end-to-end performance and resilience engineering. Strong .NET/C# development skills, deep security fundamentals, distributed systems experience, and a bias for automation, collaboration, and continuous improvement are essential. Familiarity with modern security models, agile delivery, and emerging AI concepts is a plus.