Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Security

Overview

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 full potential each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

We are looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer to join the Entra External ID team. Our mission is to secure and simplify external identity experiences for organizations worldwide. Entra External ID enables businesses to connect with customers, partners, and developers through secure, customizable, and scalable identity solutions. External identity is one of the fastest-growing areas in identity and access management. We face unique challenges that require innovation and deep technical expertise: 1. Customization & Extensibility: Build a platform that allows enterprises to tailor sign-up, sign-in, and user journeys to their brand and compliance needs-while maintaining security and performance at scale. 2. Sign-Up & Onboarding Experiences: Design frictionless, secure onboarding flows for millions of external users across diverse industries and geographies, balancing usability with robust authentication. 3. Developer Experience: Deliver world-class APIs, SDKs, and documentation that empower developers to integrate identity seamlessly into their apps. Our goal is to make EEID the most developer-friendly identity platform in the industry. 4. Scale & Performance: Architect services that handle 100s of millions of monthly users 5. Security & Compliance: Implement advanced authorization models (RBAC, ABAC) and zero-trust principles to protect sensitive data and meet regulatory requirements worldwide.

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.

Responsibilities

• Create and implement code for large-scale distributed services runtime.
• Write code that is extensible and maintainable, applying coding patterns and practices such as state-of-the-art generative AI, source code organization, and naming conventions.
• Learn and apply diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability principles, understanding when code is ready for sharing and delivery.
• Identify and escalate blockers or unknowns during development, communicating their impact on timelines.
• Ensure proper processes are followed to achieve high standards of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility. Contribute to compliance efforts by checking for visible evidence (e.g., audit trails) in product features.
• Develop awareness of compliance expectations at Microsoft and implications of onboarding new technologies. Gain knowledge of global and local regulations for technologies and system applications.
• Apply debugging tools, tests, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively flag issues in production features. Conduct incident retrospectives to identify root causes and implement repair actions.
• Begin to apply least-access principles and use appropriate mechanisms (logging, telemetry) to investigate issues while maintaining privacy and security.
• Test and explore design options for product/solution features, outlining strengths and weaknesses with managerial guidance. Produce code to test hypotheses and assist with technical validation efforts.
• Help develop design documents supporting simple user stories with oversight. Maintain awareness of the current technology landscape and escalate findings for design decisions.
• Learn about performance, scalability, resiliency, cost of goods sold (COGS), and other requirements in systems architecture. Begin to uphold Microsoft standards of security, privacy, and compliance in systems architecture.
• Recognize the importance of building solutions that expand on the work of others.
• Contribute to the refinement and integration of feedback in product features by escalating analysis findings to inform engineering decisions.

Qualifications

Required/minimum 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

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or preferred qualifications:

• 4+ years deep hands-on working knowledge of building cloud-scale services.
• 4+ years experience in one of the object-oriented programming languages including runtime internals like C#, Java, etc.
• 2+ years operational experience in running service in one of the large-scale clouds like Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform.
• 2+ years of technical leadership, raising the technical bar, maintaining data and results-driven culture while closely working with cross function teams for the same connected mission.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.