Job Description

The Identity engineering team builds and manages Microsoft's online identity providers for all of Microsoft's online services and platforms like Azure, Office, Xbox, and HoloLens. We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances in Groups vertical in Azure Active Directory. Groups serve as the core of automation and powers a wide variety of Identity and Access Management services. Our work enables customers to easily manage access to their cloud applications, power collaboration through Microsoft 365 groups and ease management scenarios such as rule based dynamic membership, policy assignment and group life cycle management. Our customers, partners and Microsoft internal services rely on the group construct for their solutions and thus every line of code you write has an impact on our customers all around the world. We deliver internet scale services and event processing pipelines in Microsoft Graph. Security, availability, performance, and scale are essential for us.

Our culture promotes diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion and is clearly reflected in all the things we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us - it is the foundation of what we do. Our team has a strong sense of accountability and provides its members with many opportunities for learning and career growth.

We are a collaborative, closely-knit team with an agile customer-driven mentality. We are seeking experienced and passionate software engineers to join us as we create and deliver mission critical services and processes to enable Microsoft's online presence. You will develop software and services at scale, innovating the latest technologies as the early adopters while mentoring other team members.

We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire, and grow within our organization. Microsoft Identity has one of the most advanced and leading capabilities in group management. We are transforming our group concept into even better value for our customers. This is your chance to make an impact! Apply to learn more!

This is a broad cross-team role with high visibility. You will collaborate closely with multiple teams across Microsoft to deliver key customer solutions and the technology to support them.

* Lead design and implementation of future architecture for highly scalable, durable, low latency identity management systems.
* Build an effective and agile development organization using industry leading best practices.
* Lead the definition of requirements, KPIs, priorities and planning of engineering deliverables.
* Mentor and grow team members.

We believe in enabling our team members to unlock their highest potential and invest a lot in building a collaborative and agile culture to achieve our business success. Join us and be part of our path to the next level of awesomeness!!

Basic Requirements

* 8+ years of enterprise-level software development experience on Distributed Services
* Experience building a large scale (1M+ transactions/day), highly available service (99.99) from conception to deployment (Full lifecycle).
* Expertise in any modern continuous delivery/deployment systems (GIT, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, etc..)
* Passion for operational excellence.
* Experience with Cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, etc..)
* Ability and experience having cross-team impact, collaboration, and influence.
* Experience mentoring Jr. engineers and helping them grow.

Preferred Requirements:

* Technical leadership, experience in high performing, agile teams
* Experience with Identity Access Management or other Security products.

The 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 there after

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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