Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

12 Apr, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

12 Jan, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Distributed Systems, Identity Management, Access Management, Authentication Protocols, Authorization, Applied Cryptography, Cloud Security, Monitoring, Reliability, Automation

Industry

Software Development

Description

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. The Microsoft Entra group serves over a billion active users, powering the Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Account services that are at the core of almost every Microsoft product and platform like Office, Xbox, HoloLens and Azure. Our engineering team has opportunities for engineers to work across the stack from delivering user-facing experiences to innovations in hyper-scale, geo-distributed, stateful, fault tolerant services. We are the Core Authentication team responsible for the authentication service serving users and devices everywhere, securing access to your favourite applications and services. We are looking for an experienced software engineer with years of technical expertise in building highly scalable and distributed systems to join us to support new and exciting scenarios in the enterprise and customer identity and access management spaces. This opportunity will allow you to work hands-on on a core service serving billions of users each month, and you will need to draw on your deep technical experience to support the team. You will also have an important role in building and shaping the team's engineering culture, work in a collaborative hybrid work environment, and embrace a live site-first mentality, which is required to run critical services at hyper-scale. You’ll join a team of amazing and passionate software engineers, who will help you to learn and grow every day. 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. 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. #MSFTSecurity, #MSFTSecurity, #hiring #identity #microsft #mscareers #security #softwareengineer Responsibilities Responsibilities: We are looking for a curious and passionate engineer with experience in high throughput and multi-tenant services, an ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability. Specifically, you will: Provide technical leadership for the team, develop your own technical designs as well as contribute, coach, and review technical designs from teams across Microsoft. Partner with key stakeholders to drive improvements and change across multiple teams across multiple geographies in the Microsoft Entra organization. Design, develop, and un large scale distributed software services and solutions. Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability and monitoring for production services. Develop “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. Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with other leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users. Qualifications Qualifications - Required: Required/minimum qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field Proven technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. Experience in one or more of the following is advantageous: Prior experience with distributed systems Identity and Access Management systems Authentication protocols (OAuth, SAML, OpenID, MFA, FIDO2) Authorisation and access control (RBAC/ABAC) Applied cryptography and key management Secure communication protocols (TLS/SSL, PKI) Cloud security and architecture (Azure, Entra ID) 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. 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.

Responsibilities

The role involves providing technical leadership, designing and developing large-scale distributed software services, and troubleshooting production services. The engineer will also collaborate with stakeholders to drive improvements across teams.