Software Engineer

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.

Our team of engineers is dedicated to ensuring the highest quality standards within the IDNA space. We focus on critical processes such as preparing individuals for OnCall duties, managing incidents, and conducting thorough Postmortem reviews after incidents occur. Additionally, we oversee Change Management, meticulously tracking which bits are deployed to production and how they impact the system. Our engineers are committed to automating these processes to enhance efficiency and reliability. Join us in our mission to uphold the integrity and efficiency of our operations through innovative automation and engineering excellence.

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.

We are looking for an experienced engineer passionate about building scalable, secure, and maintainable backend services. The ideal candidate has a strong track record in designing reliable systems, writing clean code, and driving engineering excellence across the development lifecycle. Responsibilities include: - Design and implement scalable backend services and automation workflows. - Drive engineering excellence through secure coding, robust testing, and maintainable design. - Own end-to-end feature development, ensuring reliability, diagnosability, and customer transparency. - Collaborate across engineering, product, and incident management teams to improve service health and operational readiness. - Participate in on-call rotations and live site investigations, applying structured debugging and telemetry analysis. - Contribute to architecture discussions, design documents, and cross-team dependency management. - Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and accessibility standards throughout the development and deployment process.

Qualifications - Required: Bachelor'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. Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR 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 equivalent experience.

Qualifications - 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.

HM Qualifications Other:
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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