Summary
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Join a large-scale engineering team building and operating mission-critical distributed services. You will design scalable platforms, improve reliability and performance, work with Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and help operate systems handling extremely high request volumes. The role suits an engineer interested in globally distributed systems, platform reliability, and challenging infrastructure problems.
Highlights
Work on mission-critical distributed systems operating at global scale, with substantial impact on reliability, performance, availability, and scalability. The role offers exposure to large-scale cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and high-throughput authentication services within a collaborative engineering culture.
Description
Overview
AAD Gateway is a mission critical reverse proxy service protecting IDNA.
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
Designs, develops, and operates highly available distributed systems and platform services at global scale.Develops mission-critical services supporting Microsoft Entra, including traffic management, Kubernetes (K8s) runtime platforms, and livesite management.Builds and maintains scalable services that process millions of requests per second and support hundreds of billions of authentications per day.Designs and implements technical solutions to improve the reliability, availability, performance, and scalability of platform services.Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software while supporting availability targets greater than 99.99%.Owns software features and services through the full development lifecycle, from design and implementation through deployment and production support.Collaborates with engineers and cross-functional partners to solve complex technical problems and deliver critical software safely and efficiently.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Rust, or PythonOR 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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Rust, or Python.OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Rust, or Python.OR equivalent experience.Strong track record as a hands-on engineer designing and delivering elegant solutions to meet complex design and architectural challenges in a cloud services environment.Deep practical experience operating high-scale services in production environments.Strong communications skills, comfortable presenting to large audiences and customers.Prior experience with performance analysis and optimization of web services and software.Prior experience building services which run on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.Prior experience working in the Identity and/or Security domains.
Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S.
is USD $85,400 - $168,100 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 $111,100 - $183,700 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.
