Senior Software Engineer

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<div class="isg-job-description“>OverviewSecurity 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.The Identity Platform team powers the core runtime infrastructure that underpins Microsoft’s cloud-scale identity services, ensuring reliable and performant authentication and authorization for billions of users and devices around the world. We operate at the heart of Microsoft’s security and Identity ecosystem, engineering the foundational platform that runs seamlessly across all Microsoft clouds and regions. Our focus is on runtime efficiency, infrastructure resilience, and service scalability – enabling rapid innovation while maintaining the highest standards of availability, compliance, and security. From orchestrating global deployments to optimizing the execution layer of identity workloads, our team is dedicated to building a secure, agile, and intelligent platform that keeps Microsoft’s identity promise running 24/7 at planetary scale. Come and join our team as a Senior Software Engineer.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 Design, implement, and operate resilient, planet-scale identity infrastructure that handles billions of authentication and authorization requests daily. Drive runtime efficiency through deep analysis of performance, cost, and reliability metrics across multi-region deployments. Lead architectural decisions for distributed systems that support service hardening, security compliance, and operational excellence. Partner with teams across Microsoft Security to integrate and evolve platform capabilities to meet evolving product and regulatory requirements. Mentor engineers, championing a culture of inclusion, engineering rigor, and continuous improvement. Participate in on-call rotations, live site reviews, and incident analysis to improve system health and team learning.Embody our culture and values

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