Senior Software Engineer

The service-to-service authentication team provides the backbone that secures all non-human communication at Microsoft, spanning both Microsoft-internal services and customer-owned workloads and authenticating billions of transactions per hour. We build and operate Azure managed identity, secure token issuance, and backup authentication systems that power everything from core Azure infrastructure to critical customer workloads and AI agents. Alongside operating at massive scale, the team designs and delivers new authentication protocols and advanced security capabilities to meet evolving threat models and platform needs. As a foundational dependency of the cloud and a prime target for sophisticated threat actors, we engineer every capability with an uncompromising focus on security, resilience, and reliability.

We are looking to hire a Senior Software Engineeer.

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.

• Deliver new and improved capabilities for our services by designing and implementing features that enhance security, resilience, and engineering quality.
• Raise the bar on quality through design leadership, code reviews, and direct hands-on technical engagement and coding.
• Lead innovation in the application of AI by adopting, using, and contributing to the creation of AIdriven tools to improve engineering productivity, while also shaping and delivering AI agents that automate operational and engineering workflows at scale.
• Contribute to live-site and engineering excellence by serving as an on-call engineer and participating in engineering fundamentals items, incident response, pre-mortems, and post-mortems to drive durable learnings and improvements.

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.

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.

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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 $160,200 - $261,000 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.