Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience. Preferred: 5+ years professional software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. citizenship verification is required due to citizenship-based legal restrictions; the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified via a valid passport.
About the job
Build and operate cloud-based identity security governance systems that assess risk, trigger escalations, and automate response and remediation.
What you'll do
- Design and operate security state management, escalation, and automated response workflows.
- Scale reliable cloud governance infrastructure and build intelligent alerting, routing, and prioritization systems.
- Integrate security telemetry and predictive risk models; support reliability and incident response.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience coding in a listed language, OR equivalent experience.
- Meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Verify U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building, deploying, and operating production services.
- Experience with distributed systems, automation or reliability engineering, event-driven architectures, Azure cloud services, infrastructure-as-code, secure system design, or technical leadership.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, TypeScript
AI focus
Collaborate with data science to embed predictive risk forecasting and propensity models into prioritization and escalation logic.
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