Software Engineer 2

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

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 Application Identities Platform Team belongs to the Microsoft Entra organization (formerly called Azure Active Directory), which offers the Identity platform for Microsoft 365, Azure, and many software companies that helps them create cloud services that are secure. Our team's role is to make it easy for developers to give their applications identities that enables them to securely access resources and to enable experiences for administrators and end users that help them to make smart and secure authorization choices when they need to let applications access their data. We solve highly complex problems in the critically important cloud security space. We are looking for a Software Engineer who can help us design, implement, and deliver high-quality and high-scale cloud services that meet the needs of our customers and partners. You will have the opportunity to work on challenging and impactful problems and collaborate with a diverse and talented team. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to the broader Identity community and ecosystem, both within and outside Microsoft. We are looking for a Software Engineer 2 to join our team! 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 2+ years of experience designing, implementing, and shipping cloud services or software products in a production environment.
• Experience utilizing software engineering fundamentals, with a focus on writing maintainable code, debugging complex systems, and contributing to secure, scalable service design.

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain extensible, diagnosable, and reliable code for services and features, applying coding patterns and best practices.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure quality, scalability, and alignment with Microsoft standards. Debug proactively and reactively using logs, telemetry, and diagnostic tools.
• Conduct root cause analysis and apply learnings to improve future iterations.
• Design and implement test strategies, including unit and integration tests, to ensure quality and coverage. Integrate automation into test planning and execution.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to refine architecture, identify dependencies, and contribute to design documents and system plans that meet security and compliance expectations.
• Implement and test code changes using Safe Deployment Practices (SDP) to improve service reliability, observability, and security.
• Use automation and tooling to manage configuration and production deployments. Build foundational knowledge of distributed systems and infrastructure-as-code.
• Engage in incident drills, debriefs, and cross-team knowledge sharing to drive operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Embody the Microsoft culture and values .

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees