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 External ID Developer Experience (EEID DevEx) team within Microsoft Entra is dedicated to making third-party identity integration effortless, secure, and insight-driven. Our mission is to streamline every step of the developer journey—preventing security incidents before they occur while delivering the operational visibility needed to maintain trust at scale. By fostering deep collaboration across Microsoft’s identity ecosystem, we empower developers and administrators worldwide to build and run rock-solid authentication experiences that serve millions of users every day.

You will tackle high-impact challenges shaping authentication experiences that secure billions of sign-ins each month while working at the forefront of identity and security. You will collaborate across Microsoft’s top teams, drive innovation in SDKs and tooling, and see your work empower millions of developers and users worldwide. Join us to make a real difference in how the world signs in.

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.

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Responsibilities

Design, development, testing, and DevOps of Teams services ensuring security, availability and performance. Improving security of the services by implementing more secure communication protocols and design patterns. Contribute to design documents and participate in code reviews. Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and root cause analysis. Collaborate with team members residing in various parts of the globe.

Ensure seamless and secure user journies, own the end-to-end experience from initial sign-in through advanced scenarios by setting quality standards, embedding security best practices, and preventing incidents before they happen.

Accelerate feature delivery & reliability drive rapid, data-driven rollout of new capabilities while maintaining rock-solid stability; define clear success metrics, monitor health, and continuously improve based on real-world feedback.

Cultivate Cross-Organizational Collaboration Act as the central advocate for third-party developers aligning priorities, removing blockers, and translating complex requirements into intuitive experiences that delight both engineering partners and end users.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical discipline with 2+ years of experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud services.
  
  

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.

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.