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.

Businesses and corporations increasingly blend on-premises and cloud applications. Users need access to these applications both within their local infrastructure and in the cloud. The management of users across both environments presents complex challenges. Our team within Identity division, helps solves needs of the hybrid identity for large number of customers, By allowing common user identity for authentication and authorization to all resources, regardless of location. In this role, you'll be responsible for building/enhancing service responsible for provisioning identities through sync in Entra ID by developing code, upgrading, deploying and operating our team's infrastructure; and helping to respond to live site issues. This is a highly collaborative role in which you will work closely with feature teams across Identity to improve monitoring maturity and implement best practices.

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

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer with an experienced technical background and passion for designing, developing, and deploying high-scale, high-throughput, and highly performant multi-tenant services.

The ideal candidate will have the ability to lead efforts and discussions for the architecture of aspects of products/solutions. Independently creates and mentors others for a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring the quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests. Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. Collaborate effectively with various partner teams, including UX designers, product owners, data scientists, and other engineering teams. They should be adept at understanding requirements, identifying and addressing ambiguities, and translating them into well-implemented, high-quality code that ensures customer success at cloud scale. Responsibilities include:

• Lead by example and mentor team members to produce extensible, maintainable, and high-quality code. Optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to enhance performance and maintainability.
• Identify and implement best practices and coding patterns, providing deep expertise in coding and validation strategies. Utilize debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively and reactively resolve issues.
• Oversee the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms. Facilitate coordination and communication across teams to resolve conflicts and ensure security and performance.
• Lead architectural discussions, create proposals, and oversee the testing of hypotheses and proposed solutions. Mentor team members in testing and quality assurance, defining success criteria for test outcomes.
• Embody our culture and values 

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or C#, Java, or Python. OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years of development products and scalable distributed services, and designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
• 4+ years of experience in cloud backend development and operation, including performance, reliability, resilience, and scale-out.
• 4+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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 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 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 October 10, 2025.

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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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