New 
Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Aug 22, 2025 | |
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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. The Identity Provisioning engineering team builds and manages Microsoft's online identity providers for all of Microsoft's online services and platforms like Azure, Office, Xbox, and HoloLens. We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances in online security and user management. Our work spans both the consumer and enterprise space and can be found in internet scale online services, the Windows operating system and most phones and handheld devices. Identity engineering employees have deep technical expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, very large-scale experience. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates. Our teams are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join the Identity Provisioning team and help ensure our customers have prompt and actionable information on their identity data as it moves between the over 250 systems we manage. This is a business-critical service to enable Microsoft's online presence. You'll have the opportunity to lead creative, compelling, and cutting-edge services that support our worldwide operations. You will be responsible for leading and growing the best engineers in the world while forming some of the best service teams in Microsoft. 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.
ResponsibilitiesTechnical Leadership and Engineering Excellence: Lead the end-to-end software development lifecycle, including requirement gathering, architecture, application and database design, development, testing, and deployment, while enforcing engineering best practices to ensure high-quality, scalable, and secure solutions. Leverage AI and develop Copilot features within the application to enhance user experience and productivity. Solution Design and Architecture: Develop resilient solution designs that adhere to architectural best practices, security by design, and business goals, guiding the team in selecting optimal technologies and design patterns for sustainable and high-performing systems.Mentorship and Team Development: Mentor team members through code reviews and design feedback, promoting skill growth, inclusion, and a collaborative culture that contributes to both individual and team success.Collaboration and Cross-Team Partnership: Foster collaboration with Microsoft product teams, program managers, and UX designers to manage dependencies, share knowledge, and jointly deliver updates to enhance engineering capabilities. Quality Assurance: Establish and enforce best practices in coding, testing, and documentation to ensure high standards for code quality, performance, and service reliability. Site Reliability: Support and maintain existing services & integrations with LOB applications across the enterprise. Continuous Improvement and Innovation: Identify and implement opportunities for automation, process optimization, and technical innovation, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement within the team.Planning and Communication: Participate actively in sprint and semester planning, provide accurate cost estimates, and maintain transparent communication on deliverables, risks, and milestones. Embody our culture and values | |