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Posted date: Aug 05, 2025
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $188,900
Range: $119,800 - $258,000
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.As part of this role, you will work with Microsoft Graph Change Notifications (MGCN)—a mission-critical platform that delivers real-time change alerts across Microsoft 365 workloads. MGCN supports high-throughput, low-latency delivery via Webhooks, Event Hubs, and Event Grid, servicing over 150 billion monthly requests. The platform plays a pivotal role in enabling secure, scalable, and resilient event-driven architectures, powering scenarios such as workflow automation, compliance monitoring, and data synchronization. Candidates with experience in distributed systems, event streaming, or Graph API integrations will thrive in this environment.
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.
Design and implement scalable event-driven architectures leveraging Microsoft Graph Change Notifications (MGCN) to support real-time data synchronization, compliance monitoring, and workflow automation across Microsoft 365 workloads. Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, security engineers, and partner teams to define and refine requirements, ensuring MGCN integrations meet performance, reliability, and privacy standards. Drive innovation in distributed systems and cloud services, applying deep technical expertise to build resilient, low-latency, high-throughput notification pipelines using technologies like Azure Event Hubs, Event Grid, and Webhooks. Lead operational excellence efforts, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response for MGCN services, ensuring high availability and minimal disruption to downstream consumers. Mentor and support engineering peers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and inclusive collaboration within the team and broader identity platform organization.
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Qualifications
Required 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. 4+ years of experience with Distributed ServicesOther 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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
Coding and debugging skills from prior work on distributed systems. API design and engineering for scale. Exposure and/or experience with Azure or other cloud technologies. Security experience.Demonstrated ability to deliver secure, scalable, and observable services, including experience with authentication/authorization (e.g., OAuth, Managed Identities), telemetry pipelines, and live site operations in a production environments.Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 August 12, 2025.
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.
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