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Software Engineer

Microsoft


Job Location:

Redmond, WA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 85400 - 168100
Posted: 5 October 2026 (17 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 2 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Software Engineering

Job Summary

Overview

Microsofts 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.

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 Microsofts 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 doing so we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. HM Team Description: IDNA: Microsoft Identity & Network Access (IDNA)isat the heart of the day-to-day technology experience and securesover a billionmonthlyactive users. It powersthe identity experience which is at the core of almost every Microsoft product and service from Windows to Office from Azure to Xbox. MicrosoftIdentity is a booming businessand were just getting started on our mission to secureand protect the worlds most valuable assets and most highly trafficked services. IDNA Engineering: The Identity Engineering team is hiring engineers who are passionate to work on high scale distributed highly available and secure cloud native services. You will have an opportunity to work on the latest technologies in storage distributed systems secrets and apply innovative algorithms for solving problems at scale and high performance. We need collaborative developers who can think big and find creative ways to meet these big challenges. Our culture promotes diversity multiculturalism and inclusion and is clearly reflected in all the things 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. Microsofts 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. Microsofts 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. Microsofts 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
  • Designs and develops large scale distributed software services and solutions
  • Develops best-in-class engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized secure reliable diagnosable actively monitored and reusable.
  • Considers testability portability/monitoring reliability and maintainability and understands when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
  • Focuses on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.
  • Troubleshoots and optimizes automation reliability and monitoring for LiveSite


Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline with proven experience 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 1 year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript Rust or Python.
    • OR Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript Rust or Python.
      • OR equivalent experience.


Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85400 - $168100 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 $111100 - $183700 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
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.


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