Senior Software Engineer

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

Our Identity Governance team drives identity security and access governance through advanced automation and intelligence. We design solutions that reduce standing privileges, enforce least-privilege principles, and enable secure, time-bound access for critical resources. We're also pioneering AI-driven agents to simplify workflows, strengthen compliance, and enhance user experience at scale - helping customers achieve robust protection without sacrificing agility. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and organization to achieve more. We innovate, collaborate, and build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create an inclusive culture where everyone thrives.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who will help build secure and scalable solutions that protect customer environments. This role offers hands-on experience with modern technologies, including automation and AI-driven features, while collaborating with a talented team to improve security and user experience.

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 deliver features that strengthen identity security and access governance, improving resilience and user experience.
• Engage proactively with customers and partner teams to ensure solutions meet real-world needs and compliance requirements.
• Apply and champion modern engineering practices, including AI-driven approaches, across the full development lifecycle.
• Drive initiatives to improve service security, resilience, and quality, streamline team processes, and reduce live-site costs.
• Collaborate closely with peers and partner teams to solve technical challenges efficiently and securely.
• Follow and promote modern engineering practices to ensure reliability, performance, and compliance.

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 Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or 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 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
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years building cloud-native applications on Azure Familiarity with distributed systems and security/identity solutions
• Experience with Kubernetes and AI/ML integration
• Experience with Languages: TypeScript, Java Frameworks: .NET Core, Node.js ,Cloud: Azure services (Functions, Storage, Identity) DevOps: Git, CI/CD pipelines

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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.