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 in Mountain View, CA is hiring Senior Software Engineers or Leads to build Entra Suite focused on AI for Security and Security Copilot. We build and manage Microsoft’s online identity providers. We have open positions at multiple levels. 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 teams are seeking experienced and passionate software engineers 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 design and develop creative, compelling, and cutting-edge systems that support our world-wide operations. You will develop software and services at scale, innovating on the latest technologies as the earliest adopters while mentoring other team members. Also, 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! 

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.

• Design and develop creative, compelling, and cutting-edge systems that support our world-wide operations.
• Develop software and services at scale, innovating on the latest technologies as the earliest adopters while mentoring other team members.
• Ensure the highest standards of security and quality in all aspects of our work, from design to deployment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI Copilot for Security, enhancing our threat detection and response capabilities.
• Drive digital transformation and advocate for customer needs, leveraging deep technical expertise and customer insights.
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews.   
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.   
• Consider testability, monitoring, observability, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.   
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.   
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.    Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site issues. 
• Participate in on-call rotations to support and debug customer-reported issues as well as internally created service incidents.
• Embody our and