Senior Software Engineer
12/14/2025
The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop large-scale distributed software services and solutions, ensuring best-in-class engineering practices. Responsibilities also include improving test coverage, troubleshooting, and optimizing automation and reliability.
Salary
119800 - 234700 USD
Working Hours
40 hours/week
Company Size
10,001+ employees
Language
English
Visa Sponsorship
No
Team Description: Security 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. 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.
HM Team Description:
Join Microsoft Entra’s Global Secure Access (GSA) Web + AI Gateway team, where we build security for AI and AI for security at global scale. Our team operates at the intersection of networking, security, and AI technologies, delivering cloud services that enable people to work securely from anywhere while meeting companies’ compliance needs. This is a rare opportunity to develop new products - large, strategic investments - within a well-established organization that is shaping the future of secure access. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help define, build, and evolve heavily integrated platforms at scale. You’ll work on cutting-edge solutions, creating a seamless, integrated stack that empowers productivity and security worldwide. If you’re passionate about designing networking systems that combine AI innovation with enterprise-grade security, this is your chance to make an impact.
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
Responsibilities: • Work with the Product and Engineering team members to design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions. • Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews. • System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions. • 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. • Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas. • Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered. • Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users. • 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
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to: C/C++, Golang, Rust, C# ○ OR equivalent experience
2+ years of experience with core networking protocols and technologies
Qualifications - 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.
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.
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