Overview
The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.
The Identity & Access Management (IAM) Protect team within the CISO organization is seeking a motivated Security Software Engineer to join our Identity Operations team.
This role focuses on** **designing and building extensible, secure, and scalable platform solutions that address recurring identity and security challenges through well‑architected system capabilities, rather than one‑off fixes or reactive operations.
You will partner closely with** IAM Protect engineering teams to architect, implement, and evolve security‑compliant systems using Azure services and modern software engineering practices. The emphasis is on creating reusable, composable foundations **that can be consistently extended to support new scenarios over time, while improving reliability, security posture, maintainability, and customer experience. AI‑assisted tooling may be leveraged to enhance engineering productivity and system intelligence, not as isolated automations.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Work on** **Identity and Access Management (IAM) platforms and internal identity systems to design and implement features that improve security posture, operational reliability, and customer experience.
Design & develop Secure / Scalable internal platform(s) and service(s)** that educate, proactively address recurring customer issues and enable customer self‑resolution **through intelligent, guided experiences.
Apply an AI‑first approach to problem solving—leveraging intent detection, knowledge grounding, orchestration, and policy‑driven workflows before introducing traditional code‑heavy automation.
Proactively identify gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities in existing internal IAM systems, and drive design and implementation of enhancements aligned with security, scalability, and long‑term maintainability.
Mentor junior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance, helping raise overall team engineering quality and security awareness
Continuously improve engineering quality, operational readiness, and documentation** **through design reviews, post‑incident analysis, and best practices.
Participate in on‑call rotations and incident reviews to learn how identity systems behave under real‑world conditions.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field
10+ years of software development experience with proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as, C#, Java, or Python with preference for engineers who have built large/extensible and scalable systems.
Strong fundamentals in software engineering, including data structures, algorithms, and object‑oriented or modular design.
Experience building production services or distributed systems**, **not just scripts or prototypes.
Familiarity with API‑based system integration and secure service‑to‑service communication.
Experience building services on a cloud platform (Azure preferred).
Ability to work effectively as a team player in a collaborative engineering environment.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working in the Identity & Access Management domain or security platforms.
Experience reducing operational toil through automation-first or intelligence driven system design
Ability to influence architectural decisions beyond individual feature ownership
Experience applying AI techniques in production systems (e.g anomaly detection, LLM backed workflows)
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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.**