Software Engineering IC3

Microsoft is seeking an identity focused software engineer to join the Digital Security & Resilience organization as we undergo the journey to ensure that the right identities get access to the right resources at the right time, protected each step of the way.We are a team that values diversity of multiple fronts and believes in deep collaboration bringing the best side of technology.We empower individuals, service owners by providing a high scale solution to protect the identity, access and execute datacentre operations securely.

We are doing this by building highly asynchronous, event driven, distributed microservices and processing complex data at scale. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, integrating, and enhancing these systems. Our team consists of highly motivated, innovative engineers. As part of our team, you will get exciting opportunities to work on amazing technologies across a variety of platforms.The team culture values engineering quality, technical excellence, grass roots innovation, and collaboration. We foster a supportive and productive work environment to provide growth avenues for each team member.

Our Culture

Growth mindset - we practice a learn it all vs a know-it-all attitude. Wins are cheered, failures are celebrated and viewed as learning opportunities

Candour - we believe in transparency and receiving and providing regular constructive feedback across the hierarchy

Diverse and Inclusive - every voice matters and is appreciated. This is a safe environment where you can express yourself without fear of retribution

Leadership oriented - each of us are leaders who strive to create clarity, generate energy, and deliver success. We believe in leading with empathy, trust, and context rather than control.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement microservices to enable real time, highly scalable, performant, and sustainable solutions.
• Deliver automated and well-tested features across different services and platforms.
• Use engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle to establish maintainable, reliable, and secure systems.
• Manipulate, collate, and analyse complex, high dimensional data from varying sources to solve difficult problems.
• Collaborate with teammates in various roles to plan and execute on key deliverables.
• Work in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth
• Learn quickly from your peers, projects, and interactions with customers.
• Provide on call support and monitor the health of services in production as part of DevOps culture.
• Identify opportunities and drive the implementation of automation to improve service health, manageability, reliability and telemetry.
• Own, triage, investigate and resolve service issues with an emphasis on broad communications, learning & teaching throughout the process
• Author functional and technical documentation. Communicate on a deeply technical level with product engineering, project management and operations teams to improve and optimize products, improve infrastructure, and evolve services.

• BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
• 5-8 years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and running cloud services at large scale in C# and .Net.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and event driven architectures.
• Deep understanding on security aspects of software like authentication, authorization, encryption, etc.
• Excellent coding skills, strong in OOPS, OOAD, design patterns and their application
• Ability to both work independently and coordinate across geographies.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts to a variety of cross-group stakeholders.
• Strong organization skills, a bias for action, and ability to deliver results.
• Proven ability to deal with ambiguity and drive for clarity.
• Demonstrated ability to work efficiently, prioritize workflow, ramp quickly, and meet demanding deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient working knowledge of cloud-computing environments like Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with web service development and familiar with related technologies.
• Experience with Microsoft’s identity & access solution - Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory).
• Basic automation scripting skills with PowerShell and developing modules.
• Knowledge of Power BI, including the ability to design and develop interactive dashboards, reports, and data visualizations to support analysis and decision-making.
• Familiar with modern security models like OAuth and token-based authentication and authorization.
• Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.
• Experience using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD).

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. ]]>