Senior Software Engineer

Overview

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 Application Identities Platform Team is part of Microsoft Entra, formerly Azure Active Directory. Entra provides the identity foundation for Microsoft 365, Azure, and many software companies that build secure cloud services. Our team focuses on how applications and intelligent agents are identified, trusted, and authorized across the cloud. As software becomes more AI driven and increasingly autonomous, identity is a critical security control. We are investing in creating secure and least-privileged driven identity platform for agents that help prevent misuse while enabling innovation. Our work enables developers, administrators, and platforms to make smarter security choices with less manual effort, even as systems operate at massive scale. We solve complex problems where security, reliability, and scale are essential.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can help architect and deliver high quality, high scale cloud services that support next generation identity and security scenarios. You will build foundational capabilities that govern how both human operated and AI driven applications securely access resources. You will collaborate across identity and security teams, influence technical direction, and help shape the future of secure AI and identity at Microsoft. 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.

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.

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Responsibilities

• Identify dependencies and incorporate them into design documents, collaborate with other teams to manage these dependencies, and ensure security, compliance, performance, and reliability across systems.
• Lead architecture discussions and own the architecture for products/solutions by testing design hypotheses, developing complex specifications, and ensuring designs meet performance, scalability, resiliency, and security requirements.
• Work with partner teams to ensure end-to-end testing, live-site coverage, scalability, performance, and escalation pathways are in place before going live.
• Independently create a clear test strategy to ensure solution quality, including security testing, adding new tests, fixing or deleting broken tests, and improving test suite reliability and speed.
• Stay current by proactively learning new technologies and trends, and conduct sessions to raise awareness on engineering design principles including security, testability, and performance.
• Apply best practices for code development, including secure design principles, scaling products to customer requirements, and meeting performance and security promises. Mentor junior devs.

Qualifications

Required 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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

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.

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 $160,200 - $261,000 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.