Software Engineer Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

The Identity 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, large-scale experience. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates.

Identity Platform team is a group of engineers who focus on three things: ensuring high levels of availability for all of the Identity services, enabling developer productivity inside the Identity division, and controlling the costs of running services that support billions of transactions per day.

Our team owns key resiliency capabilities that back Identity services and enable them to run with high availability. We manage all ingress of the Identity traffic and power its intelligent shaping. We have developed and continue to improve flexible service health assessment models, that increase our ability for automatic fault mitigation and reduce TTM of incidents. We work closely with our partners in and outside of the division to improve fault tolerance of the capabilities that are at the core of enabling access to Microsoft services.

When it comes to developer productivity, our focus is on building a common platform, that enables consistent livesite management operations. Live site management activities - responding to incidents, dealing with security requirements, deploying the service, operating it at scale, creating and maintaining service dependencies - exact a significant toll on all developers inside the organization. Our team's focus is to provide solutions at the platform layer, and let other developers work on business logic of their applications.

As our services continue to grow explosively, the cost of compute becomes rather large. Our team is driving a big effort to regularize resource consumption for the entire division - with the impact measured in hundreds of millions of dollars.

We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more!

Our teams are seeking Software Engineers, to join us as we create and deliver mission critical services and processes to enable Microsoft's online presence. You will have the opportunity to design and develop creative, compelling, and cutting-edge systems that support our world-wide operations. You will develop software and services at scale, innovating on the latest technologies as the earliest adopters while mentoring other team members.

Required Qualifications:

* 1+ years of experience in one or more of: C, C++, C#, ASP.NET, Chef
* 1+ years of experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design.

Preferred Qualifications:

* BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
* Strong understanding of network technologies and protocols, including TCP/IP and DNS
* Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive

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.

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Responsibilities:

* Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Microsoft's Identity services.
* Solve problems relating to mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence; with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
* Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
* Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning.