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.

Are you excited by the prospect of building identity and security services at cloud scale? Microsoft operates hundreds of internal Entra ID tenants that enable our workforce to develop, monitor, and test the software and services we build. The Enterprise Identity and Access Management team is responsible for administering and protecting these tenants, to empower our employees and our customers to achieve more. EIAM employees have deep technical and business expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, large-scale experience with Microsoft and industry solutions. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates.  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! 

We are seeking a data-focused Senior Software Engineer to help us build the tools to manage Entra ID tenants at scale. This role will draw deeply upon your experience coding for Azure services like Function Apps, Data Explorer, and Cosmos DB. While direct experience with cloud identity solutions is not a requirement for the role, we’re looking for SWEs with a passion to learn new technologies and the ability to build solutions around them.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required 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

      o OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience developing cloud solutions.

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:

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

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

o 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

o OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with document or graph databases - design, querying, performance improvement and some understanding of large data processing.
• Experience in identity management principals
• Experience with designing software via a security development lifecycle

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

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 Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 15, 2024.

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• Adhere to modern engineering practices, effective coding, writing unit test cases, debugging, code reviewing and creating CI/CD pipelines.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications and help implement them.
• Review work of peer members, provide solutions to pull team standards forward.
• Design and develop application components and services to support data related processes, presentation, and consumption.
• Deliver software to improve the quality, availability, reliability, scalability, latency, security, resiliency and efficiency of a service.
• Contribute to debugging, troubleshooting complete stack of a service, and drive analysis of outages; write software and build automation to resolve problems permanently.
• Respond to incidents during regular on-call rotations and share details related to incidents and their resolution through post-mortem reports and regular review meetings.