Software Engineer Identity & Network Access

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

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 Redmond GSA team is part of the Microsoft Entra Network Access product family, which provides a Security Service Edge solution to our customers and brings modern Zero Trust principles that make it easy to govern and secure access to every app and resource. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute deeply across both the network and identity domains—an intersection where secure connectivity and strong authentication come together, increasingly enhanced by AI‑driven insights. Our solution combines cloud intelligence with lightweight customer‑managed agents that provide line of sight into private networks. We’re looking for a Software Engineer to help drive the next step in our agent experience, extending our capabilities into a fully managed solution that removes adoption barriers and accelerates customer value. 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. This role is targeting an immediate start date.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience 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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Rust, or Python.
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Rust, or Python.
OR equivalent experience.
Experience in server-side development, OOP and SOLID concepts.
Experience with any modern continuous delivery/deployment systems
Familiarity with Application (HTTP, HTTPS), transport & security (TCP/UDP, TLS) protocols .
Experience designing, building, and operating large scale distributed systems that can sustain rapid growth.
Experience with Rust.
Experience incorporating AI whenever applicable.

Responsibilities

Designs and implements highly scalable, durable, low latency systems, while effectively collaborating with peers.
Participates in code reviews and team planning activities.
Learns about, shares new ideas, and leverages software developer and AI-based tools to create, debug, and maintain code for features.
Uses internal tools, open source, and AI when possible.
Learns about and contributes to operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis.
Identifies solutions and mitigations to simple issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site services and escalates as necessary.

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