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Senior software Engineer

Microsoft

Microsoft

Software Engineering
USD 119,800-234,700 / year
Posted on Aug 8, 2025

Senior software Engineer

Redmond, Washington, United States

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Date posted
Aug 07, 2025
Job number
1857329
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.

As a part of this role, you will work with the Microsoft Identity & Network Access (IDNA)team. This team is a central part of the everyday technology experience and safeguards over a billion active users every month. It enables the identity experience that is essential for almost every Microsoft product and service from Windows to Office, from Azure to Xbox. Microsoft Entra is a thriving business, and we have a huge role in our mission to secure the world's most precious assets and most visited services. We are the IDNA Security team with the mission to protect Entra services. We are a close community of engineers that play multiple roles -- work closely with various services, collaborate with other security teams, help services launch and run securely. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a security mindset who can provide data intelligence, technical leadership and design along with delivering Entra protection goals via real time detection and defense systems.

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

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Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

OR equivalent experience.

  • 3+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable software systems.
  • 2+ years of experience with data technologies.

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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Solid foundation in software engineering principles and architecture design
  • Experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 August 12, 2025.

Responsibilities

  • Develop investigation, eviction and detection systems to protect critical infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with threat investigators and design durable automated systems to generate insights, signals to catch threat actor.
  • Build and run security systems, data platforms that provide detection of anti-patterns and anomalies via machine learning.
  • Technical lead for engineering excellence, influence adoption of secure systems.

Other

Embody our Culture and Values


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.