Overview
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.
Within Microsoft Security, the Microsoft Graph team plays a pivotal role—serving as the unified API gateway through which security signals, identity data, and compliance controls are surfaced to developers and partners across the ecosystem. While Microsoft Graph spans the breadth of Microsoft 365 data and intelligence, the gateway sits at the center of Microsoft's security posture: it is the chokepoint where authentication, authorization, and compliance controls are centrally enforced for every request, making it foundational to keeping customer estates secure.
Microsoft Graph is the gateway to data and intelligence in Microsoft 365. It provides a unified programmability model that one can use to access the tremendous amount of data in Microsoft 365, Windows, and Enterprise Mobility + Security. Developers around the globe use the wealth of data in Microsoft Graph to build apps and automation for organizations and consumers that interact with billions of users that use Microsoft 365 products for work, school, and personal productivity.
Our team manages the Microsoft Graph API gateway service, which processes millions of requests per second on a global scale for billions of users and supports tens of thousands of APIs from various workloads. This mission-critical service requires high performance, low latency, and exceptional availability (99.999%). Our responsibilities include driving API design patterns, enabling sophisticated data and operation orchestration, centralizing security enforcement, enhancing observability, and meeting compliance and privacy requirements. Additionally, we provide Layer 7 proxy capabilities with a strong emphasis on protocol compatibility, DDoS protection, and minimizing last-mile latency.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about building distributed, highly available, and secure services, with strong attention to detail and a deep commitment to developer experience. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with high-throughput, multi-tenant services and writes clean, well-factored, and well-tested code. Join our team and help developers build experiences that make their end users more productive.
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.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end design, development, and operation of distributed services processing millions of requests per second at 99.999% availability
- Lead and participate in design reviews for API gateway features including routing, throttling, caching, and protocol translation
- Investigate and resolve production incidents; participate in on-call rotation for mission-critical services
- Drive performance analysis and optimization to meet low single-digit millisecond latency targets and minimize added latency
- Champion engineering quality through automated testing, ensuring services are clean, well-factored, and well-tested
- Strengthen observability by improving telemetry, tracing, and diagnostics for rapid incident detection and resolution
- Mentor engineers on the team through code reviews, design guidance, and engineering best practices
- Collaborate with partner workload teams to onboard new APIs and enforce consistent design patterns across Microsoft Graph\
- Embody our Cultureand Values
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- 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.
Other Requirements:
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Practical experience operating high-scale services in production environments.
- Prior experience with performance analysis and optimization of web services.
- Prior experience building services which run on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Expertise in .NET writing high-performance, thread-safe code for low-latency systems.
- Experience with API development frameworks such as OData, GraphQL, or gRPC.
- Experience with protocols such as TLS and HTTP.
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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 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.**