Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Nov 25, 2024 | |
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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. Microsoft 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 backend directory store is at the heart of Microsoft Entra ID architecture. Our team is evolving the directory store platform to address the needs for the next decade. You will have an opportunity to work on the latest technologies in storage and distributed systems and apply innovative algorithms for solving problems at scale and high performance. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a track record of delivering distributed cloud services and passion for solving hard problems. Our culture is inclusive, casual, and high energy; our engineers come from diverse backgrounds, are passionate and grounded in our customer needs. 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.
ResponsibilitiesDesigns and develops large-scale distributed software services and solutions Adheres to and drives modern software engineering practices Drives system design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code and design reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions Develops and applies "best-in-class" engineering for our services by ensuring that services and components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable. Exposes testability and test coverage issues, improves test coverage for services, organizes and implements integration tests, and resolves problem areas Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. Gains a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborates across teams to create cohesive end-to-end experiences for our users Defines and focuses on data-driven approaches to identify customer/partner needs Troubleshoots and suggests new approaches to optimize automation, reliability and monitoring for Live Site OtherEmbody our Culture and Values | |