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Microsoft UK • United Kingdom

Software Engineer

Employment type:  Full time

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top 3 scores:
83%

Location flexibility

81%

Hours flexibility

79%

Autonomy

Job Description

The Edge & Platform Security Fundamentals team is responsible for securing the operating systems built at Microsoft and used by more than a billion customers in homes, businesses, and across Azure. OneFuzz is a service that our team develops and runs as a world class platform to bring secure code to market.


If you would like to work on OneFuzz, the service that touches lives of a billion users, come join us. We are a fun-loving team that is building a service to:
• Change the way Windows and Azure develops software
• Enable developer teams to find bugs in code before it reaches customers
• Eliminate classes of vulnerabilities from Windows and Azure

We are a highly collaborative group, and everyone's ideas and contributions count. As a Software Development Engineer 2 on the team, you will be responsible for the implementation and maintenance of large-scale services and delightful experiences. You will be accountable for features from development to production, focusing on automated tests to enable continuous delivery at scale, with a quality first mindset. This is an agile, data-driven, and fast-paced environment, where engineers are empowered to innovate and take ideas from concept to scale.

On this team you will work in an agile and collaborative environment and will interact with many teams across the company. We expect that you will have a desire to make things better, whether it be in how we optimize our inner dev loop, how we test our code, or how we can make deployments happen at light speed. You're always looking for ways to make things better as a team. We expect a reliable and responsible work ethic, that you enjoy taking on responsibility within your role, on projects you have initiated, and that you also enjoy bringing out the best in your teammates.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain features in OneFuzz

• Contribute to debugging and troubleshooting issues in any component of the service
• Participate actively in code reviews, bug/issue triage with teams
• Maintain and support live services, acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for on-call issues, driving efforts to reduce incident volume and improve system reliability through telemetry and data analytics.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 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#, Python, and Rust.
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing UI with React
• Experience in multi-threading and asynchronous programming
• Experience building and deploying services to Azure
• Experience with automated dynamic testing such as fuzzing
• Enjoy discovering and solving problems; proactively seeking clarification of requirements and direction; being a self-starter who takes responsibility and drives consensus
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and working independently
• A willingness to learn, share, and improve
• Great written and verbal communication skills
• Great interpersonal skills with ability to convey technical content to a varied audience
• Learn and apply new skills in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Cloud Background Check:

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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Company benefits

Wellbeing allowance
Health insurance
Dental coverage
Gym membership
Mental health platform access
Buy or sell annual leave
Shared parental leave
Charity donation scheme
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts
Volunteer days
Fertility treatment leave
Open to compressed hours
Open to job sharing
Fertility benefits
Enhanced sick pay
Enhanced sick days
Compassionate leave
Travel insurance
20 days annual leave + bank holidays
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Adoption leave
Childcare credits
Carer’s leave
Cycle to work scheme
Faith rooms
Annual bonus
Annual pay rises
Company car
Hackathons
Open to part-time employees
Pregnancy loss leave
Life insurance
Equity packages
Financial coaching
Relocation packages
Sabbaticals
Enhanced pension match/contribution

We asked employees of Microsoft UK what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
83%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
81%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
67%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
63%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
74%
Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
79%
Employees feel that they can mostly manage how they get their own work done

Working at Microsoft UK

Company employees

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