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July 18, 2025

Senior Software Engineer

Senior • Hybrid • On-site

$119,800 - $234,700/yr

Redmond, WA

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.

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.
  • Strong understanding of authentication and authorization protocols, including OAuth, OpenID Connect, and SAML.
  • Strong experience with .NET, Scala or TypeScript. 

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 

  • 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 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 equivalent experience. 
  • Solid foundation in software engineering principles and architecture design.
  • Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
  • Knowledge of security best practices and experience in implementing secure software solutions. 
  • Experience building SDK’s.

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.

 

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 July 22, 2025. 

 

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Responsibilities

The mission for the Identity for Services (ID4S) Team, part of Microsoft Entra is to make it hard to get authentication and authorization wrong. We believe the tasks to get authentication and authorization right, actively preventing security incidents, and always being updated for a service should be straightforward and at the same time provide operational insights part of the platform. As a team we take meaningful steps daily to achieve our mission supporting developers, (security) operations and administrators. Our solution is used across thousands of internal Microsoft Services, and several of our components making up the solution are available as open source in GitHub. Our goal is to bring all our learnings from running services across Microsoft to everyone through GitHub, Entra, Azure, and beyond. There are still many challenges for us to solve, to deliver on our mission and to help us we are looking for Senior Software Engineer(s).

 

The role requires experience building seamlessly integrated components which are running in high scale services where elements such as security, resilience, memory, and performance are motivation to get up every day. You work effectively across a large set of organizations and teams across the company operating with a customer first mindset. As a team we work on ensuring our solution utilizes as few resources as possible and we enjoy scrutinizing allocations, we also ensure our API’s are no touch (configuration only) and extensible, and we collect telemetry allowing us and service owners with key insights to effectively operate services.

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.

Contribute to building a high performing team by:

  • Developing and maintaining authentication and authorization components for various platforms, including .NET, Rust, Java, Golang, Python, Node.JS. Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as leadership teams, product managers, service owners and platform teams.
  • Making data-driven decisions (quantitative and qualitative).
  • Supporting service owners ensuring seamless integration.
  • Participating in code reviews, design discussions, and contribute to the overall improvement of the solution.