Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $119,800–$234,700 / yr
Posted: 16 days ago
Closes: Dec 8, 2026
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $177k

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This role pays more than 57% of similar roles. Most pay $153,440–$217,725 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $177k versus about $186k for comparable roles.

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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

Microsoft currently has 622 open roles on FindRole.

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As a Senior Software Engineer on the WorkIQInfra team at Microsoft, you will play a pivotal role in building and maintaining high-scale backend services for Power Platform connection and credential management. Your responsibilities include designing secure authentication and authorization flows using Entra ID and OAuth, ensuring tenant isolation and least privilege access, and collaborating with security teams to meet compliance standards. You will also drive architectural decisions for connection lifecycle management and build highly available, low-latency services used across Microsoft 365 and Power Platform. Additionally, you will participate in on-call rotations, lead incident analysis, and mentor engineers while continuously improving the platform’s performance and scalability. The role requires expertise in languages such as C#, TypeScript, Java, or Python, familiarity with cloud infrastructure on Azure, and experience working in enterprise-scale distributed systems.

Skills

C# TypeScript Python Azure RESTful APIs OAuth Entra ID Docker Kubernetes CI/CD Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL Redis GraphQL

What you'll do

Design and build high-scale backend services for Power Platform connection and credential management.
Ensure secure connectivity for Copilot agents, workflows, and applications by owning core infrastructure.
Implement authentication and authorization flows to meet enterprise security requirements.
Build multitenant, highly available, low-latency services used across Microsoft 365 and Power Platform.
Participate in oncall rotations and lead incident mitigation and root cause analysis.

What we're looking for

4+ years of technical engineering experience in software development using C#, TypeScript, C++, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Design and operate high-scale backend services for secure connection management in enterprise environments.
Implement secure authentication and authorization flows with Entra ID, OAuth, and other identity systems.
Build multitenant, highly available, low-latency services used across Microsoft 365 and Power Platform.
Ensure tenant isolation, least privilege access, and compliance with enterprise security requirements.

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