1 day ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own authentication and authorization feature areas end to end, including design, development, deployment, technical direction, design reviews, code reviews, and engineering standards.
- Lead complex initiatives across Core Authentication and partner teams in collaboration with product managers, architects, security engineers, and support engineers.
- Apply threat modeling and secure-by-design practices, meet compliance requirements, and evolve authentication protocols and cryptography.
- Participate in on-call rotations, resolve complex production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and implement reliability improvements.
- Mentor engineers across levels and raise the team’s technical bar.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Ability to pass Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: master’s degree with 8+ years of experience, or bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: 2+ years of technical leadership experience, including driving a complex multi-year infrastructure project.
- Preferred: deep knowledge of distributed systems and cloud technologies, including building and operating large-scale backend or full-stack services and participating in on-call rotations.
- Preferred: knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Kerberos, SAML, or other modern authentication and authorization protocols.
- Preferred: 3+ years of experience with scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
- Preferred: strong communication skills and experience working across disciplines and functions.
Benefits
- Base pay is listed at USD $142,800–$274,800 per year across the U.S., with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range of USD $188,000–$304,200 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for a minimum of five days and accepts applications on an ongoing basis until filled.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.