Senior Software Engineer

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.

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) team within the Identity division is looking for an engineer looking to solve large scale problems and deliver the next wave of innovation in Entra ID (formerly called Azure Active Directory) Groups vertical. Groups serve as the core of automation and powers a wide variety of Identity and Access Management services and AI Agents. Our work enables customers to easily manage access to their cloud applications, power collaboration through Microsoft 365 groups and ease management scenarios such as rule based dynamic membership, policy assignment and group life cycle management. We deliver internet scale services and event processing pipelines in Microsoft Graph. Security, availability, performance, and scale are essential for us. On this team, we solve highly complex problems in the critically important cloud security space. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on challenging and impactful problems and collaborate with a diverse and talented team. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to the broader Identity community and ecosystem, both within and outside Microsoft. We are a collaborative group of supportive team players with an agile customer-driven mentality. Our culture promotes diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion and is clearly reflected in all the things we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us - it is the foundation of what we do. Our team has a deep sense of accountability and provides its members with many opportunities for learning and career growth.

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

• Work with Engineers and Product Managers to deliver compelling sets of features.
• Synthesize complex problems to actionable solutions that delight customers using data-driven approach.
• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.
• Troubleshoot and optimize test automation, reliability, performance, and monitoring for production services.
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews.
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that components are well-defined, modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, maintainable, actively monitored and reusable.
• Expose test coverage issues, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
• Collaborate with mentors and leaders to gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses.
• Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability and monitoring for Live Site.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience building large-scale distributed systems.
• 2+ years experience building identity systems.
• 2+ years experience building large-scale offline processing systems. 

Other Requirements:

Ability 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: 

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications 

• Bachelor'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 
• Knowledge of security best practices. 
• 4+ years experience building large-scale distributed systems.
• 4+ years experience building identity systems.
• 4+ years experience building large-scale offline processing systems. 
• OR Master'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 
• OR equivalent experience. 

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 September 25, 2025. 

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