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:

We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join the Microsoft Identity and Network Access (IDNA) Authorization group. In this role, you will design and implement scalable products aimed at protecting access for hybrid workforces, customers, and non-human workload identities. Our solution is the only one that offers unified, multilayered identity and network access security. We innovate on multiple technical aspects notably, Architecting services for large scale and low latency requirements to handle millions of requests per minute completing under 10ms, reducing surface area by granular controls and having least standing privileges between 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.

Responsibilities

Designing distributed systems that are performant, resilient and secure at scale. Building fine grained authorization capabilities and deliver the next generation experience. Operate a large scale production platform used by over a billion of active users. Driving cloud native innovation to improve production systems. Working closely with engineers, service teams across Microsoft, and external customers to accelerate the feedback loop and integrate insights directly from end users into product development.

Qualifications

Proficiency in programming languages such as C#, Rust, Go, Java, or Python: Demonstrated ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code. Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud: Understanding of cloud infrastructure and services. Strong problem-solving and analytical skills: Ability to diagnose issues, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions. Proven experience in building scalable and reliable software solutions.

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .