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Microsoft · 2 days ago

Software Engineer II

Microsoft is a leading technology company known for its innovative products and services. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their AI organization, focusing on building infrastructure that protects services and products while collaborating with Product Managers and other engineers to design effective solutions.

Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
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Responsibilities

Help build infrastructure that protects services and products under Microsoft AI
Work on cutting-edge systems that are meant to protect Gen-AI based services from abuse and denial-of-service
Build extremely low-latency reverse-proxies that can scale dynamically and are deployed globally
Leverage ePBF to build detection and mitigation pipelines for new services - Build capabilities on top of SLMs using ONNX runtime to detect novel attacks in real-time
Enhance proxy capabilities for WSS, WebRTC etc
Design, write and implement services with performance, efficiency, re-usability, and maintainability as core focus
Mentor engineers on the team by providing hands-on assistance, best practices, and promoting an inclusive learning environment

Qualification

CC++C#JavaPythonPen-testingBot DetectionDDoS ProtectionCDNsDNSLoad BalancersTraffic ManagementReverse ProxiesUX FrameworksHTTP ProtocolMentoringCollaborationProblem Solving

Required

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, Python OR equivalent experience

Preferred

Pen-testing experience in the industry
Bot Detection and DDoS Protection
Published contributions to CVEs
Ability to deal with ambiguity to prioritize issues
Good understanding of UX frameworks and HTTP protocol basics
2+ years of experience working with CDNs, DNS, Load Balancers, or Traffic Management
2+ years of experience working with internet-facing application servers or reverse proxies like Apache, NGINX, YARP, Istio etc
5+ years of experience writing code (C/C++, C#, Java, Python) for large-scale systems

Company

Microsoft

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Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.

H1B Sponsorship

Microsoft has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (9192)
2024 (9343)
2023 (7677)
2022 (11403)
2021 (7210)
2020 (7852)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$1M
Key Investors
Technology Venture Investors
2022-12-09Post Ipo Equity
1986-03-13IPO
1981-09-01Series Unknown· $1M

Leadership Team

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Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO
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Vukani Mngxati
Chief Executive Officer - Microsft South Africa
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