Senior Software Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond)

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
United States , Redmond

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Microsoft Entra’s Global Secure Access (GSA) team, where we build security for AI and AI for security at global scale. Our team operates at the intersection of networking, security, and AI technologies, delivering cloud services that enable people and AI agents to work securely from anywhere while meeting companies’ compliance needs. This is a rare opportunity to develop new products - large, strategic investments - within a well-established organization that is shaping the future of secure access. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help define, build, and evolve heavily integrated platforms at scale. You’ll work on cutting-edge solutions, creating a seamless, integrated stack that empowers productivity and security worldwide. If you’re passionate about designing networking systems that combine AI innovation with enterprise-grade security, this is your chance to make an impact.

Job Responsibility:

Work on Requirements: Work with the Product and Engineering team members to design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions
Work on Design: System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions, facilitate design reviews
Work on Implementation: Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable
Work on Quality: Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas
Work on Deployment: Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered
Work with Customer in mind: Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users
Work on Operations: Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site
Work with AI: Accelerate responsible AI adoption across engineering (AI-assisted design, coding, testing, and operations)
establish best practices, guardrails, and success metrics to measurably improve outcomes
Embody our Culture and Values

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:

4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to: C/C++, Golang, Rust, C# OR equivalent experience
8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in (not limited) C++, C#, Java, Go, Rust
OR equivalent experience
Experience building global distributed services
Understanding of networking and network security fundamentals, including TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, routing, and proxy-based architectures
Hands on experience with developing and running services on Linux / Unix environments
Hands-on experience with AI as a user and as developer: LLMs, Azure OpenAI, MCP, RAG, Agents is a plus
Hands-on experience with IAM, IdPs, OAuth, etc is a plus
Hands-on experience with high-performance datapaths and L7 proxies (e.g., Envoy, NGINX, HAProxy) and/or packet processing (e.g., eBPF, DPDK, XDP) is a plus
Hands on experience with K8s, containers and deployment pipelines is a plus

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 25, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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