Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
MicrosoftIreland1 day ago
Full-timeEngineering, Information Technology
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 Tenant Provisioning Team within the Identity and Access Management domain is dedicated to delivering a secure, governed method for provisioning and managing tenants within the Entra ID ecosystem. We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in distributed systems and the development of high-scale, mission-critical services. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will demonstrate technical leadership in designing robust architectural solutions, mentoring and guiding fellow engineers, and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence. You will be adept at evaluating complex technical challenges, driving cross-team alignment, and advocating for best practices in security, reliability, and maintainability. Your experience will enable you to anticipate potential obstacles, propose effective strategies, and ensure successful delivery of collaborative features that impact millions of users.

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, implement, and maintain critical identity infrastructure capable of managing millions of requests daily.
  • Collaborate with product managers, and other teams to create and deliver features from initial concept to Production.
  • Work within a framework that emphasizes ongoing improvement, adaptation, and learning, informed by data analysis.
  • Take part in on-call rotations, site reviews, and incident investigations to contribute to system reliability and team knowledge.
  • Provide guidance to engineers, promoting inclusion, technical accuracy, and consistent improvement.
  • Support the development of an engineering culture focused on growth and professional development.

Qualifications

Required:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND Mid-Senior level years technical engineering experience.
  • Solid experience in technical engineering with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
  • Proven experience taking part in on-call rotation
  • Ability to work with global teams across multiple time zones.

Preferred/Additional Qualification

  • Experience in Kubernetes and CosmosDB.
  • Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills 
  • Experience with cross-discipline and cross-team collaboration 
  • Excellent technical communication skills 
  • C# preferred but not must have.

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.

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