Senior Software Engineer- Identity

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.

The position calls for a dedicated, self-motivated, and adaptable software engineer with proficiency in full-stack development, from front-end to back-end. The ideal candidate should have a strong interest in working on credential enforcement and provisioning within Entra ID. Working within the Security Business Unit and collaborating extensively with various teams across Microsoft Identity, the role involves delivering secure, robust, accessible, and uniform experiences that empower customers and users to protect their accounts and identities effectively.

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

A Full Stack Senior Software Engineer able to engage in the comprehensive lifecycle of product development, from conceptualization and design to development, rollout, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance of full-stack services. The role entails assuming full responsibility for feature development, encompassing aspects such as quality, scalability, performance, telemetry, alerting, and upkeep.

Responsibilities Include

• Designing and deploying new features within the products managed by the team capable.
• Writing and implementing code that is both scalable and maintainable.
• Participating in code reviews to uphold coding standards and best practices.
• Adopting a security-first approach to project development.
• Collaborating with the engineering team to establish practices that boost developer productivity.
• Engaging in the operation of live services, proactively addressing issues on a rotational on-call basis.
• Identifying and executing both immediate and long-term solutions and mitigations to enhance service reliability and performance.
  
  

Qualifications

Required:

• Masters or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Solid hands-on experience technically - strong coding/programming
• Experience programming in C#, Java or other computer programming languages preferred.  
• Strong technical prowess, including understanding of algorithms, systems architecture, and end-user experience.  
• Background on end-to-end ownership of complex software systems.
• 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.

• Experience of operating and maintaining distributed infrastructure.
• Experience in modern monitoring/configure management systems, AND/OR cloud infrastructure
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure and/or other cloud technologies.
• Experience in Agile, DevOps, building micro services.
  
  

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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