SOFTWARE ENGINEER II

Are you interested in developing cloud services that protect Microsoft and its customers from malware and phishing The Sonar team builds scalable, robust APIs and distributed cloud solutions for content analysis across multiple platforms. Our detonation platform, relied on by services like Office 365 and Azure Sentinel, offers low-latency, accurate threat detection using dynamic analysis and machine learning. We value diversity, collaboration, and innovation, providing growth opportunities within a supportive and engaging environment. Join us to make an impact and advance your career.

Responsibilities

Ready to make an impact, here’s what you’ll do in our team:

• Build software that’s reliable, scalable, and easy to maintain.
• Make sure our services are secure, modular, monitored, and ready to perform.
• Work with architects to create high-scale APIs and turn ideas into solutions.
• Set strong API standards for easy integration and stability.
• Write code that’s simple to test, monitor, and deploy.
• Improve monitoring and add self-healing so our systems stay strong.
• Boost test coverage and quickly solve any service issues.
• Work with partners to make onboarding smooth.
• Promote top-notch engineering practices and always look to improve.
• Plan for growth, tune performance, and make sure we’re ready for new challenges.
• Help with on-call shifts and use feedback from incidents to upgrade our services.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• 3+ years software development experience
• Excellent design, problem solving and communication skills
• Professional experience building, shipping and maintaining cloud services on Azure, AWS, Google Cloud or similar

Preferred Qualifications:

• Design, development and deployment of highly maintainable backend distributed systems/services and APIs
• Proficient in C#, .NET Core, or Java, with a strong emphasis on designing and building RESTful APIs and gRPC services.
• Deep understanding of API design best practices, including versioning, rate limiting, throttling, and documentation standards.
• Proficient with security practices, including OAuth2, JWT, and AAD integration for API protection.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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