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Software Engineer

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Microsoft

Software Engineering
Posted on Aug 2, 2025

Software Engineer

Nairobi, Nairobi City, Kenya

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Date posted
Aug 01, 2025
Job number
1849810
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

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.

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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field OR equivalent practical experience.
  • 2+ year of professional software development experience in languages like C#, Java, Go, or Python.
  • Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming.
  • Experience building or working with RESTful APIs or distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Interest in security, identity, or infrastructure. Familiarity with DevOps practices such as CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and diagnostics.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and a growth mindset.

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.

Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer in the Identity division, you’ll work on building foundational and abstract services that serve as reusable building blocks supporting multiple Entra products in communication, notification and more. These services power mission-critical identity workloads like authentication, authorization, governance, and hybrid identity all while meeting demanding requirements around scale, reliability, latency, and security.

  • Contribute to critical components of Microsoft Entra, such as Identity Governance Notification and more.
  • Help build and operate cloud-scale distributed systems that require high availability, low latency, and world-class security.
  • Learn from and collaborate with experienced engineers and leaders in identity, cloud, and security domains.
  • Write robust, maintainable code and automated tests that ensure quality, reliability, and resilience.
  • Participate in all stages of the development lifecycle from planning and design to deployment and production support.
  • Troubleshoot live site issues as part of a collaborative on-call rotation, contributing to service health and customer trust.
  • Grow your technical and professional skills through mentorship, training, and real-world impact.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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.