Software Engineer II

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 Developer Experience SDK team within the Microsoft Identity organization is dedicated to making authentication and authorization seamless and secure for developers worldwide. Our mission is to ensure that getting authentication and authorization right is straightforward, actively preventing security incidents while providing operational insights as part of the platform. We support developers, security operations, and administrators by delivering world-class authentication libraries and SDKs that empower millions of developers and support over a billion active users across Microsoft products like Office, Xbox, HoloLens, and Azure. Our solutions are used across thousands of internal Microsoft services, with several components available as open source on GitHub. We aim to share our learnings from running services across Microsoft through GitHub, Entra, Azure, and beyond. As a team, we focus on building seamlessly integrated components that run in high-scale services, prioritizing security, resilience, memory, and performance. We ensure our solutions utilize minimal resources, provide no-touch (configuration-only) APIs, and collect telemetry for key operational insights.

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

• Develop and maintain authentication and authorization components for various platforms, including .NET, C/C++, Rust, Java, Python.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as leadership teams, product managers, service owners and platform teams.
• Make data-driven decisions (quantitative and qualitative).
• Support service owners ensuring seamless integration.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and contribute to the overall improvement of the solution.
  
  

Qualifications

• Masters or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Demonstrated professional software engineering experience, using one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#, Python, Rust
• Demonstrated strength to quickly get up-to-speed and be productive on new technical domains and are comfortable in dealing with ambiguity.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills with a solid understanding of object-oriented design, coding patterns, and testing practices.
  
  

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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