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 engineering team builds and manages Microsoft’s online identity providers for all of Microsoft’s online services and platforms like Azure, Office, Xbox, and HoloLens. We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances in online security and user management. Our work spans both the consumer and enterprise space and can be found in internet scale online services, the Windows operating system and most phones and handheld devices. Identity engineering employees have deep technical expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, very large-scale experience. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates.  Our team is seeking an experienced and passionate software engineer to join us as we create and deliver mission critical services and processes to enable Microsoft’s online presence. You will have the opportunity to build top quality data and engineering platforms that improve customer security posture, through horizontal policy enforcement and password protection. This team has both machine learning experts and engineering guru. You can learn and grow expertise in both fields. The projects in this team are highly visible at CVP level. If you are result driven and seek fast career growth. This is the team for you. 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 strong sense of accountability and provides its members with many opportunities for learning and career growth.  We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire, and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more!  #IdentityJobs #MSFTSecurity

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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Identity provides the platform used to "Challenge" sign up sessions and block bot attacks on Microsoft's sign up infrastructure and other features vulnerable to bot attacks. Our team is responsible for the redesign of Microsoft's challenge infrastructure to improve resiliency of challenges available, improve good user experience when interacting with Microsoft services and use of challenge mechanisms to reduce fraud.

Key responsibilities for this position include:

Work with Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and Partners to deliver sets of features with the right overall design and architecture. 

Own and deliver complete feature areas and large-scale solutions including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, and shipping with secure long term support. 

Show leadership and take accountability in improving development practices and influence direction across related sets of systems, platforms, and/or products  Provide mentorship and coaching to more junior engineers to help them identify and propose relevant solutions. 

Write clean well-thought-out code with an emphasis on quality, performance, simplicity, durability, scalability, reusability, and maintainability. 

Be committed to delivering the best experience for our customers and partners, and then iterate based on qualitative and quantitative feedback. 

Help create a diverse and inclusive culture, participating in hiring where appropriate, so everyone can bring their full and authentic self and where we do our best work as a result. 

Take responsibility for reliable uninterrupted operation of features with the earliest detection of issues in production.  

Foster a data driven approach with everything you do from analysing and prioritizing business requirements, including customer feedback, and using metrics to prove success.  Expose test coverage issues, organize, and implement tests and types of tests needed, and resolve problem areas. 

Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our customers and users.

Participation in an on-call rota.