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The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. 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 are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and evolve the next generation of secure, scalable Identity and Access Management capabilities powering production‑grade environments. In this role, you will design and operate large‑scale distributed systems, drive high‑quality observability and operational excellence, and apply modern AI‑assisted engineering practices to accelerate developer productivity. The systems you build will have Microsoft‑level impact, supporting critical workloads across the company. You will work on cutting‑edge security technologies and have strong support from engineering leadership for your technical growth and long‑term career development.
Job Responsibility:
Design and build scalable, resilient distributed systems that deliver secure identity and access capabilities for production environments
Implement strong observability and operational excellence practices, including metrics, logging, alerting, safe deployments, and live‑site readiness
Develop and maintain Identity & Access Management features, such as authentication, authorization, policy enforcement, and secure access workflows
Leverage AI‑driven tools and automation to improve developer productivity, code quality, and operational efficiency
Collaborate across engineering, security, and platform teams to deliver high‑impact features, drive architectural improvements, and ensure secure‑by‑design principles—at Microsoft scale
Requirements:
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
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire / transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR 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 equivalent experience
Experience developing scalable data ingestion and transformation systems in batch and near real time environments
Success in an engineering development role delivering high-scale on-line or cloud services
Experience with building Identity solutions and offerings