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Posted date: Sep 02, 2025
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $158,000
Range: $100,600 - $215,400
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
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.The IAM Experiences team, part of Microsoft’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) organization, builds the platform that powers Microsoft Entra’s end-user experiences—including My Account, Devices, Groups, Sign-ins, Access, Staff and Apps. Our mission is to deliver seamless, secure, consistent and intelligent identity experiences across web and mobile platforms for every Entra user. We own and operate both horizontal capabilities and vertical experiences that serve as the primary touchpoints for identity management, authentication insights, and access governance. Our team leads frontend engineering for end-user identity scenarios, driving innovation in usability, accessibility, and performance. As part of Microsoft’s AI-first transformation, we are integrating Copilot capabilities into end-user workflows—enabling personalized guidance, proactive security insights, and streamlined access requests through conversational interfaces. We work closely with platform, security, and admin UX teams to deliver a unified identity experience across the Microsoft ecosystem. Join us to shape the future of identity at scale—your work will impact millions of users globally.
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.
Embody our Culture and Values We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer with a strong technical background, experience and passion for designing, developing, and deploying high-scale, high-throughput, and highly performant multi-tenant services. The ideal candidate will have the ability to lead efforts and discussions for the architecture of aspects of products/solutions. Independently creates and mentors others for a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring the quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests. Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. Collaborate effectively with various partner teams, including UX designers, product owners, data scientists, and other engineering teams. They should be adept at understanding requirements, identifying and addressing ambiguities, and translating them into well-implemented, high-quality code that ensures customer success at cloud scale. Responsibilities include:
Deliver world-class user experiences and planet-scale cloud services to customers in collaboration with architects, UX designers, and product managers. Design, code, test, and operate applications that are performant, reliable, secure, responsive, and accessible UI effectively abstracts customer workflow conceptsMake engineering investments, adopt AI-first experience and build reusable components to ship faster with higher quality and consistencyCollaborate with partner teams to deliver new value in our product and across Microsoft’s productsTechnical leader across release cycles, various layers of the service stack and in wide cross-org collaborationMentor junior developers, act as technical leader across the org in various initiatives
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.Technical skills: 3+ years of Proficient in various languages, especially web-based technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and C#. Strong hands-on skills in these areas. Data-driven approach: Skilled in analyzing and solving problems using query languages and tools such as Kusto. Backend technologies: Proficient in backend technologies and cloud-based architectures to build large-scale distributed systems and AI/ML experience: Experience in AI/ML is a plus2+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practicesAbility 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. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 05, 2025.
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