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. 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.

The Microsoft Entra group serves over a billion active users, powering the Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Account services that are at the core of almost every Microsoft product and platform like Office, Xbox, HoloLens and Azure. Our engineering team has opportunities for engineers to work across the stack from delivering user-facing experiences to innovations in hyper-scale, geo-distributed, stateful, fault tolerant services. We are the Core Authentication team responsible for the authentication service serving users and devices everywhere, securing access to your favorite applications and services. This opportunity will enable you to work on a foundational hyper-scale service (Microsoft Account) that serves billions of users each month. You will also have an important role in building and shaping the team's engineering culture, work in a collaborative hybrid work environment, and embrace a live site-first mentality, which is required to run critical services at hyper-scale. You’ll join a team of amazing and passionate software engineers, who will help you to learn and grow every day.

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

• Strong software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, async programming patterns, object-oriented design, parallel programming).
• Experience with distributed systems design and implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with others - you can explain your work, you can ask good questions, you listen to your peers and your customers, and you like to give and receive feedback.
• Clear and effective communications, be it when you write code, technical documents or explaining complex technical issues.
  
  

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. Additional or preferred qualifications Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ 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 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

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.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, async programming patterns, object-oriented design, parallel programming).
• Experience with distributed systems design and implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with others - you can explain your work, you can ask good questions, you listen to your peers and your customers, and you like to give and receive feedback.
• Clear and effective communications, be it when you write code, technical documents or explaining complex technical issues.
  
  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.