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.

　　As a Senior Software Engineer (Identity) you will be working with the Authentication Resilience team which builds services and technologies to ensure that the identity stack is always up and running, and users can always log in. We drive towards 99.99% availability and beyond by building redundancies and backup systems at all layers of the identity stack. We work with services across Microsoft and provide features and libraries to improve reliability and safety nets to minimize the impact of any possible issues, so that our shared customers can remain productive and secure.

　　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

　　We are looking for engineers with a "learn-it-all mindset" with experiences working with all service aspects of high scale, high-availability, and multi-tenant services, ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability. 

　　Responsibilities include:

　　Implement high-quality features with an eye towards availability, diagnosability, and redundancy

　　Collaborate and lead colleagues and partners within the team, Identity, and throughout Microsoft to design for resilience across multiple service components

　　Debug issues in production and respond to them quickly to mitigate customer impact

　　Approach difficult problems with an open mind, helping to build services and features that meet complex technical, security, and standards requirements

　　Optimize existing features to lower their compute, memory, and/or latency requirements.

　　Embody our Culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) & Values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

　　Qualifications

　　Required/Minimum 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.

　　3+ years of experience building and maintaining high-scale, high-availability distributed systems.

　　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 Qualification:

　　Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

　　OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience

　　2+ years implementing and maintaining identity authentication protocols, such as OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and/or SAML2

　　2+ years working with reverse proxy-based routing technology.

　　Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $104,000 - CAD $193,200 per year.

　　Find additional pay information here:

　　https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

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