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.  

We are the Identity and Network Access (IDNA) AI Innovations team — we are redefining what’s possible with AI in enterprise security. As the vanguard of transformation across IDNA, we’re building breakthrough AI agents and user experiences that elevate Zero Trust architectures, collaborating with teams like Security Copilot to pioneer secure AI for the enterprise, and modernizing core services to power the next generation of AI-driven solutions.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a track record of delivering distributed cloud services and passion for solving hard problems. Our culture is inclusive, casual, and highly engaged; our engineers come from diverse backgrounds, are passionate and grounded in our customer needs.

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 implement changes across multiple products to increase authentication resilience, including in ambiguous situations.
• Proactively identify, prioritize, and address issues in livesite, championing security and quality in all aspects of our product.
• Serve as a technical subject-matter-expert in software design and implementation, setting the standard for other engineers to follow.
• Author clear and concise documents to drive product strategy, prioritization, & implementation decisions.
• 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.
•  1+ year(s) of cloud infrastructure experience
• 4+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, working in Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems

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

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 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
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Comp