About the job Principal Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly Top Secret Clearance Jobs is dedicated to helping those with the most exclusive security clearance find their next career opportunity and get interviews within 48 hours. 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. 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. Sovereign Cloud Security secures Microsoft's clouds for governments around the world through enabling best in class security solutions for our customers through foundational services. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with technical leadership experience working with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability. This role will focus on working on tough problems with high impact expectations as a result of the efforts through individual effort as well as working across the organization as appropriate. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Responsibilities <ul><li>Technical lead of a team of engineers (non-management) to design and deliver solutions to improve security services globally improving the efficiency of services while factoring in reliability, scalability, and latency considerations. </li><li>Establishes, influences, and ensures policies and procedures for developing extensible, reusable, and maintainable code, identifying and addressing coding issues, and conducting effective code reviews for the most critical or highest impact spaces such as those with deep technical domains connections or a broad set of products or services at critical junctures (e.g., early in development, urgent time horizon). Writes proof of concept code as needed and may develop code directly as needed. Ensures troubleshooting guidelines are effective by establishing communication channels and reviewing relevant data. Actively engages in troubleshooting difficult and complex issues. Guides others and provides technical leadership on identifying root causes of problems and effectively addressing them. Ensures the code review process is appropriately incorporated to meet the strategic needs of the service or product and to better align talent needs in the long-term evolution of the product or service space. Creates processes to better connect code review with the development of the talent team. Actively reviews or signs off on code as needed. </li><li>Partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios. Leverages a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. Leads incorporation of appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value. </li><li>Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products. Leads efforts to optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Identifies best practices and coding patterns and provides deep expertise in the coding and validation strategy. Creates and applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices. </li><li>Leads the creation of implementation framework as necessary, following industry standards. Leads implementation and deployment of the solution in the existing framework. Holds accountability for the impact of build deployments on both users and other services. Optimizes deployments within products and components to meet differing business objectives. Leads efforts to assure that solutions are deployed safely. </li></ul>QualificationsRequired Qualifications: <ul><li>Bachelor'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 </li><ul> <li>OR equivalent experience. </li></ul> </ul>Other Requirements <ul><li>Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: </li> <ul><li>The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination. </li><li>Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment. </li><li>Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. </li> <li>Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance </li></ul> </ul>Preferred Qualifications <ul><li>Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python </li><li>OR Master'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 </li><li>OR equivalent experience. </li></ul>Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 11, 2024. #SCS 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.

<h3>Job Description</h3><div>Job Description<div>Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few roles based in offices. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.The company is founder led, profitable and growing.We are hiring an Ubuntu on WSL Software Engineer to grow the team working on this exciting technology. The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) opens up new possibilities for Linux development in Windows environments. WSL offers a specific set of capabilities to bridge a containerised Linux into the Windows desktop, allowing for interesting new kinds of integration to take place at that boundary. It is a potent new way to enable open source developer experiences on Windows workstations. We are excited to explore these possibilities, helping to shape the future of Windows-and-Linux development. We work closely with the Microsoft WSL team to ensure that the latest capabilities in WSL are well integrated with Ubuntu. We work with other open source developer communities to ensure that WSL makes a happy place to work with their libraries, toochains and applications.This team delivers the best Linux experience on WSL to a huge audience. You will have direct influence over the roadmap for Ubuntu on WSL and will specify, architect and develop features in association with engineering managers, product managers and developer advocates. If you enjoy public speaking you would be welcome to speak at conferences about your work on WSL, and interact with a very enthusiastic community.This role involves learning and driving improvements anywhere in the Ubuntu system, from the lowest level up to user experience and a GUI. The team works in a range of languages including Python, Golang, Flutter (Dart) and C/C++. If you don't already know about containers the role will challenge you to understand the details of kernel confinement and low level system services. The successful candidate will be passionate about the future of Ubuntu, mindful of the dynamics of the open source ecosystem, and equally aware of the needs of large organisations. Strong communication and relationship skills are as important as superb technical skills.Location: This is a home-based role, in the EMEA or Americas time zone.The role entails the following:<ul><li>Implement support for new WSL features in Ubuntu</li><li>Closely follow upstream development in WSL</li><li>Manage Ubuntu WSL applications in the Microsoft Store</li><li>Implement support for Ubuntu features on WSL</li><li>Contribute to upstream projects in support of WSL features</li><li>Define, manage and execute test plans</li><li>Work with other teams at Canonical to ensure that Ubuntu is released every 6 months on schedule</li><li>Respond and work to resolve issues raised by end users and customers</li></ul>What we are looking for in you<ul><li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related engineering field</li><li>Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university</li><li>Software development experience in a high-level language - preferably Go, Python or C++</li><li>Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation</li><li>Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results</li><li>Passion for technology evidenced by personal projects and initiatives, preferably on WSL!</li><li>The work ethic and confidence to shine alongside motivated colleagues</li><li>Professional written and spoken English</li><li>Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred) </li><li>Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability</li><li>Appreciative of diversity, polite and effective in a multi-cultural, multi-national organisation</li><li>Thoughtfulness and self-motivation </li><li>Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments </li><li>Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long</li></ul>Additional skills that are nice to have<ul><li>Knowledge of Windows, especially system-level capabilities like storage, filesystems, permissions, hyper-v</li><li>Experience with Windows Subsystem for Linux, virtualization, and containers</li><li>Knowledge of PowerShell, Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps</li><li>Knowledge of Ubuntu desktop technologies (GNOME, D-Bus, systemd, Xorg/Wayland, etc.)</li><li>Debian or Ubuntu contributor/developer</li><li>Awareness of agile development methodologies and tools</li></ul>What we offer colleaguesWe consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.<ul><li>Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person</li><li>Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year</li><li>Annual compensation review</li><li>Recognition rewards</li><li>Annual holiday leave</li><li>Maternity and paternity leave</li><li>Employee Assistance Programme</li><li>Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues</li><li>Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events</li></ul>About CanonicalCanonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004.​ Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.Canonical is an equal opportunity employerWe are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.#LI-remote</div></div>

<h3>Job Description</h3><div>Job Description<div>This is a general track for security-focused engineering in every team at Canonical, across all levels of seniority. Apply here if you are already an exceptional security-focused software engineer.Most product engineering teams at Canonical include one or two spaces for dedicated security-oriented software engineers. Their role is to challenge the entire team to think more deeply about security. They contribute to the product as engineers too, but their primary focus is to improve security through state of the art practices - from table-top threat model exercises to architecture reviews, from extended security testing with fuzzers and static analysis tools to external security analyst liaison.We also build a number of products that are entirely motivated by security technology and requirements, such as our AppArmor kernel investments and our hardening, compliance and certification toolkits for Ubuntu.As the publisher of Ubuntu we also handle long-term security response and hardening for the entire operating system and open source universe. Working with tens of thousands of upstreams means that we need to be fluent in every major programming language, and design, build and adopt sophisticated tools that enable us to work at scale and speed with confidence.These roles encompass all aspects of product security, including feature development, vulnerability response, proactive security and open source community participation. All security roles interact closely with many of the other Canonical engineering and development teams, Canonical customers and our partners across the open source community.Location: We have open roles for security specialist software engineers in every timezone.What you'll doSecurity roles might tackle any of the following:<ul><li>Define, implement and document new security features </li><li>Lead security-oriented thinking in a product engineering team</li><li>Analyze, fix, and test vulnerabilities in Canonical and open source Software</li><li>Contribute to Ubuntu and upstream projects to benefit the community </li><li>Audit and analyze source code for vulnerabilities </li><li>Integrate new tools in our security infrastructure, pipelines and processes</li><li>Achieve and retain various security certifications </li><li>Extend and enhance Linux cryptographic components - specifically with modules such as OpenSSL/Libgcrypt - with the features and functionality required for country-specific compliance such as FIPS and CC certification </li><li>Work with external partners to develop CIS benchmarks</li><li>Design and develop hardening automation for Ubuntu </li><li>Monitor the security industry for new developments </li><li>Develop, test and maintain new software capabilities </li><li>Provide guidance and support to other engineering teams</li></ul>What we are looking for in you<ul><li>An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university</li><li>Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path</li><li>Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations</li><li>A thorough understanding of the common categories of security vulnerabilities</li><li>Modern engineering techniques to find and fix them </li><li>Familiarity with open source development tools and methodologies </li><li>Skill in one or more of C, Python, Go, Rust, Java, Ruby or PHP</li><li>Experience as a security champion</li><li>Experience driving security within a wider SDLC process </li><li>Professional written and spoken English </li><li>Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred) </li><li>Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability </li><li>Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation </li><li>Excellent communication and presentation skills </li><li>Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments </li><li>Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each</li></ul>Optional skills we also value<ul><li>Clear and effective communication with the team and Ubuntu community members </li><li>Experience working with Linux Kernel </li><li>Security Certification experience and knowledge in FIPS and/or CC </li><li>Experience with OVAL (Open Vulnerability Assessment Language) </li><li>Knowledge of and familiarity with low-level Linux cryptography APIs </li><li>Demonstrated high learning ability</li><li>Performance engineering experience </li></ul>What we offer youWe consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.<ul><li>Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person</li><li>Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year</li><li>Annual compensation review</li><li>Recognition rewards</li><li>Annual holiday leave</li><li>Maternity and paternity leave</li><li>Employee Assistance Programme</li><li>Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues</li><li>Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events</li></ul>About CanonicalCanonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.​ Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.Canonical is an equal opportunity employerWe are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.#LI-remote </div></div>

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