Senior Software Engineer - Security

Team Description: 

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.

HM Team Description:
The Identity engineering team builds and manages Microsoft’s online identity providers for all of Microsoft’s online services and platforms like Azure, Office, Xbox, and HoloLens. We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances in online security and user management. Our work spans both the consumer and enterprise space and can be found in internet scale online services, the Windows operating system and most phones and handheld devices. Identity engineering employees have deep technical expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, very large-scale experience. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates.  Our team is seeking an experienced and passionate software engineer to join us as we create and deliver mission critical services and processes to enable Microsoft’s online presence. You will have the opportunity to build top quality data and engineering platforms that improve customer security posture, through horizontal policy enforcement and password protection. This team has both machine learning experts and engineering guru. You can learn and grow expertise in both fields. The projects in this team are highly visible at CVP level. If you are result driven and seek fast career growth. This is the team for you. Our culture promotes diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion and is clearly reflected in all the things we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us - it is the foundation of what we do. Our team has a strong sense of accountability and provides its members with many opportunities for learning and career growth.  We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire, and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more!  #IdentityJobs #MSFTSecurity

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.

Required: 

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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 deal with ambiguity and understand key business needs in line with competing priorities and apply the right technology and implementation to the solution. 

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills with a solid understanding of object-oriented design, coding patterns, and testing practices. 

Strong industry experience collaborating with others on designing, developing, testing, and shipping solutions to large scale technical problems. 

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:
Extensive experience with one or more modern web technologies such as .NET or Node, building RESTful APIs, and hands-on knowledge of web concepts such as HTTP and MVC.

Skilled building libraries, SDKs, and other development platform components. 

Proven ability to design and develop loosely coupled, componentized, and durable software that can be easily extended and meets requirements on time. 

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills with a solid understanding of object-oriented design, coding patterns, and testing practices. 

Experience in building large scale micro services and mobile is a plus. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Improve the security for Entra tenants by deploying new features for Entra tenants using Security Defaults. Reduce fraud by improving the platform used to identify and mitigate MSA consumer fraud and abuse. Work with Engineers, Product Managers, Technical Program Managers, Designers, and Partners to deliver sets of features with the right overall design and architecture.  Own and deliver complete feature areas and large-scale solutions including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, and shipping with secure long term support.  Show leadership and take accountability in improving development practices and influence direction across related sets of systems, platforms, and/or products  Provide mentorship and coaching to more junior engineers to help them identify and propose relevant solutions.  Write clean well-thought-out code with an emphasis on quality, performance, simplicity, durability, scalability, reusability, and maintainability.  Be committed to delivering the best experience for our customers and partners, and then iterate based on qualitative and quantitative feedback.  Help create a diverse and inclusive culture, participating in hiring where appropriate, so everyone can bring their full and authentic self and where we do our best work as a result.  Take responsibility for reliable uninterrupted operation of features with the earliest detection of issues in production.   Foster a data driven approach with everything you do from analysing and prioritizing business requirements, including customer feedback, and using metrics to prove success.  Expose test coverage issues, organize, and implement tests and types of tests needed, and resolve problem areas.  Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our customers and users.  Participation in an on-call rota