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. 

Microsoft Entra Identity (ID), formerly Azure Active Directory (AAD), is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud strategy and is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team. We build and operate critical authentication, authorization and directory services that are used by 100s of millions of Azure, Office 365, XBOX and Windows users worldwide. In the mobile-first cloud-first world, sign-in and sign-up is the front door for reliable and secure end user experience to use any of Microsoft cloud services. Microsoft Entra ID hosts millions of tenants and billions of identities. It serves billions of requests per day in the stacks powering core authentication and programmability. Device identities form the foundation that powers password-less credentials, Internet of Things (IoT), Conditional Access while offering great single sign-on experience to the end users. Our team is evolving the devices platform to address the needs for the next decade. You will have an opportunity to work on the latest technologies in distributed systems and apply innovative algorithms for solving problems at scale and high performance and establish the state of the art for security. Our culture promotes diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion and is clearly reflected in all the things we do. Our team has a deep 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews.
• Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
• Considers testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understands when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order 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.
  

Other

• Embody our Culture and Values

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.

• 3+ year of working experience building large scale, resilient distributed systems.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements inc