Software Engineer II

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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.

The Identity engineering team in Mountain View, CA is looking for a Software Engineer to build and manage Microsoft’s online identity providers. 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 teams are seeking experienced and passionate software engineers 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 design and develop creative, compelling, and cutting-edge systems that support our world-wide operations. You will develop software and services at scale, innovating on the latest technologies as the earliest adopters while mentoring other team members. Also, 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! 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.

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/minimum qualifications:

• 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, Golang, or Rust
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ years of experience with Linux-based systems, including command-line tools and scripting.
• Basic understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, routing, and basic network troubleshooting.

• Familiarity with Linux, networking protocols, L3/4 firewalls, L7 proxy (nginx, envoy, ha-proxy)
• Contributions to open-source software projects
• experience in cloud services (such as Azure, AWS, or GCP) and hands-on expertise with Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and monitoring/logging tools.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 14, 2025.

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• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions that have a real impact on our customers and partners.
• Drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews, ensuring that our services are built to the highest standards and are scalable, secure, and reliable.
• Work on system design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, leveraging data/telemetry to make informed decisions, and conducting code reviews to ensure that our services are modularized, actively monitored, and reusable.
• Improve test coverage for our services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas to ensure that our services are testable, portable, and maintainable
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users, focusing on customer/partner needs through a data-driven approach.
• Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site, ensuring that our services are always up and running for our customers.
• Participate in on-call rotations to support and debug customer-reported issues as well as internally created service incidents, demonstrating your commitment to providing the best possible service to our customers