Software Engineer II - Entra ID

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.

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) is at the center of Microsoft's cloud strategy. We build and operate critical authentication, authorization and directory services that are used by the millions of Azure, Office 365, XBOX and Windows users worldwide.

In the mobile-first cloud-first world, sign-in and sign-up is the front door for reliable end user experience to use any of Microsoft's cloud services. We are looking for a Software Engineer II who will work on Entra ID. Entra ID hosts millions of tenants and billions of identities.

It serves billions of requests per day in the stacks powering core authentication and programmability. The Directory Programmability Team owns and operates the core APIs that are foundational to serving these requests and to the running of the most critical services across Microsoft.

Our team is evolving the core directory platform to address the needs of the next decade. You will have the opportunity to design and develop creative, compelling, and cutting-edge systems that support our worldwide operations. You will develop software and services at scale, innovating on the latest technologies as the earliest adopters while mentoring other team members.

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 and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions. System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions. Contribute to architectural decisions and tradeoffs that balance correctness, scalability, latency, and complexity Own or contribute to key platform components, supporting design, delivery, and operational excellence Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.

Mentor developers on the team, create an environment where you and your team can do its best work, and influence and impact others through your results and collaboration. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions Embody our culture and values Qualifications Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with 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 Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter