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.
As a Senior Software Engineer in the Core Authentication team in Entra Identity, you would contribute to shaping services that are at the heart of the company, powering authentications for millions of organizations running business critical workloads, issuing hundreds of billions of tokens a day. You would experience what it takes to run a highly distributed, scalable service at over four nine availability Service Level Agreement. You would be part of innovative and cutting edge work where we offer industry leading redundancy for our authentication services to achieve our availability goals. Beyond this, you'd be at the middle of enabling critical new security capabilities like conditional access, continuous access evaluation, token binding, credential free authentication via managed service identities for workload identities, that are at the core of company's priorities with Secure Future Initiative.
You'd have the opportunity to have a deep meaningful impact and touch billions of lives with your work. Our team has a 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!
Qualifications
Required/Minimum 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
OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of experience developing high scale, distributed systems on a cloud platform.
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.
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. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 26, 2025.
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.
- Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews.
- System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.
- Develop industry leading engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
- Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
- Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
- Focus on customer and partner needs through a data driven approach.
- Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability and monitoring for Live Site.
