Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place by providing end-to-end security solutions. The Identity Platform team is responsible for core runtime infrastructure powering Microsoft's cloud-scale identity services, ensuring reliable authentication and authorization for billions of users worldwide.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Identity Platform team, you'll work on critical infrastructure that runs across all Microsoft clouds and regions. The role focuses on runtime efficiency, infrastructure resilience, and service scalability while maintaining high standards of availability, compliance, and security.

Key responsibilities include:

• Designing and developing large-scale distributed software services
• System design with well-defined interfaces across multiple components
• Implementing "best-in-class" engineering practices ensuring services are secure, reliable, and diagnosable
• Improving test coverage and implementing integration tests
• Troubleshooting and optimizing automation and monitoring
• Working with customer/partner needs through data-driven approaches

The position offers competitive compensation ($119,800 - $234,700 base salary range, higher in SF/NYC areas) and comprehensive benefits including healthcare, educational resources, savings plans, and parental leave.

This is an opportunity to work at the heart of Microsoft's security and identity ecosystem, building foundational platforms that operate at planetary scale. The role combines technical depth in distributed systems with the impact of securing digital experiences for billions of users.

The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of technical engineering experience, strong coding skills in languages like C++/C#/Java, and experience with cloud service development. Join us in reshaping security and empowering every user, customer, and developer with simplified security solutions.