Senior/Principal Software Engineer - Cryptography & Post-Quantum Security (Multiple Roles)
Microsoft1 day ago
Haifa, Israel +3 moreSenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and support cloud-scale services for cryptographic asset discovery, risk assessment, posture management, and remediation.
- Build AI-driven and agentic capabilities that identify, prioritize, and remediate cryptographic risks and accelerate post-quantum readiness.
- Own features and services across design, implementation, testing, deployment, integrations, and operations.
- Collaborate with engineers, security researchers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality features.
- Contribute to engineering practices and culture as an early member of a new product group.
- Continuously learn and apply new technologies to improve services.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of hands-on software engineering experience building production systems.
- Experience designing, building, and operating complex, scalable, reliable, and secure distributed cloud services.
- Strong system design skills for high-scale systems, including architecture, performance, resiliency, observability, and maintainability.
- Experience owning features, services, or products end to end.
- Preferred: B.Sc., M.Sc., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: experience building and shipping AI, LLM, or agentic capabilities, including prompt or workflow design, evaluation, and integration.
- Preferred: knowledge of security systems and cybersecurity fundamentals.
- Preferred: hands-on experience with cryptographic infrastructures, PKI, keys, certificates, identity, digital signatures, cryptographic protocols, and cryptographic libraries.
- Preferred: experience building cybersecurity products, cloud security platforms, or large-scale security data platforms.
- Preferred: ability to drive ambiguous 0-to-1 problems into architecture and executable milestones.
- Preferred: experience in early-stage or startup-like product incubation environments.
- Preferred: familiarity with NIST, FIPS, PCI, and sector-specific security standards and compliance frameworks.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.