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Design, build, and operate highly reliable, secure, and scalable backend services for the Verified Identity platform, supporting identity issuance, presentation, and recovery scenarios at Microsoft scale. Drive end‑to‑end feature delivery, including requirements clarification, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and live‑site support, with a strong focus on security, privacy, and resiliency. Translate ambiguous product and business requirements into clear technical designs, proactively identifying dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs across identity, authentication, and recovery workflows. Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for owned services or features, participating in on‑call rotations, incident response, and post‑incident reviews to continuously improve service health and operational excellence. Collaborate closely with product managers, partner engineering teams, and stakeholders across IDNA, Entra, and Auth to deliver integrated solutions that meet customer and platform requirements. Contribute to a strong engineering culture by reviewing code and designs, mentoring peers, and applying secure‑by‑design and reliability best practices to raise the overall quality bar of the team.

Embody our culture and values

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

#MSFTSecurity, #VerifiedIdentity

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 $158,400 - $258,000 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.