New 
Software Engineer II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 29, 2025 | |
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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 is at the center of Microsoft's cloud strategy. We build and operate critical authentication, authorization and directory services that are used by the millions of Azure, Microsoft 365, XBOX and Windows users worldwide. In the mobile-first cloud-first world, sign-in and sign-up is the front door for reliable end user experience to use any of Microsoft cloud services.Entra IDhosts millions of tenants and billions of identities. It serves billions of requests per day in the stacks powering core authentication and programmability. We are looking for a Software Engineer II with a passion for providing reliable, scalable and secure distributed cloud services. You will have an opportunity to work on the latest technologies in security and distributed systems and apply innovative algorithms for solving problems at scale and high performance. 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. This Hybrid Position is located at our Microsoft office in Redmond, Washington. Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to relocate or reside within 50 miles of the field location.
ResponsibilitiesDesign and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions. Develop "best-in-class" engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable. Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered. Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach. Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and root cause analysis. Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for LiveSite. Embody ourCultureandValues | |