Software Engineer II

Security represents one of 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. The Conditional Access team is at the forefront of Microsoft Security, helping organizations define and enforce their security posture by ensuring the right identities have the right access under the right conditions. As part of Microsoft Security, we protect people, organizations, applications, and emerging agentic workflows from evolving cyber threats while making secure access simple and effective at global scale. We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join our team. In this role you will build and operate highly available cloud services that power one of Microsoft’s most critical security platforms. You will work on large-scale distributed systems that secure billions of authentications and access decisions every day, helping customers balance security, productivity, and compliance in increasingly complex digital environments. Our team collaborates closely across Microsoft to deliver innovative identity and access management solutions, modernize security experiences, and enable organizations to adopt new technologies with confidence. You will have opportunities to influence product direction, solve challenging engineering problems, and contribute to security capabilities that protect customers worldwide. Microsoft Security is driven by a culture of growth mindset, innovation, and inclusion. We encourage engineers to bring their best ideas forward, learn continuously, and work together to create solutions that have meaningful impact. If you are passionate about building reliable services, and solving complex security challenges, the Conditional Access team offers an opportunity to make a difference at global scale. 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.

Design and develop large-scale distributed software services and solutions.  Adhere to and drive modern software-engineering practices through design reviews.  Perform system design across well-defined interfaces and multiple components, conduct code reviews, and use data/telemetry to make decisions.  Develop best-in-class engineering by ensuring services and components are well-defined, modular, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable. Improve test coverage, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.  Weigh testability, portability, reliability, and maintainability, and know when code is ready to ship.  Collaborate leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end customer experiences, focusing on customer/partner needs through a data-driven approach. Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site.  Partner with product and engineering teammates to design and develop large-scale distributed software services and solutions.  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   Qualifications Required Qualifications: