Software Engineer II

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 Identity and Access Management (IAM) team is hiring an engineer to help shape the next wave of innovation in the Groups vertical of Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory). Groups sit at the heart of identity automation, powering access management, Microsoft 365 collaboration, dynamic membership, policy assignment, lifecycle management, and a growing portfolio of AI agents. What you will work on - Internet-scale services and event processing pipelines built on Microsoft Graph. - Hard problems in cloud security where availability, performance, and scale are non-negotiable. - Modern AI practices applied to one of the most critical surfaces in the identity ecosystem. What this role offers - High-impact problems with visibility across Microsoft and the broader identity community. - A talented, diverse team that values strong engineering and thoughtful design. - Meaningful opportunities for learning, mentorship, and career growth. Our team is collaborative, customer-driven, and agile. We hold ourselves to a high bar, support one another, and treat diversity and inclusion as foundational to how we build and how we work. If you are energized by large-scale distributed systems, security, and AI and want your work to reach hundreds of millions of users, we would like to meet to you.

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

• Work with Engineers and Product Managers to deliver compelling sets of features.
• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.
• Troubleshoot and optimize test automation, reliability, performance, and monitoring for production services.
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews.
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that components are well-defined, modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, maintainable, actively monitored and reusable.
• Expose test coverage issues, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
• Collaborate with mentors and leaders to gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses.
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.
• Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability and monitoring for Live Site
• Embody our culture and values 

Required Qualifications: 

• 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. 

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience developing high scale, distributed systems on a cloud platform - Experience with cloud computing technologies and security

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $133,800 - $219,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.