Senior Software Engineer | Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

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$119,800–$234,700 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
Closes
Dec 8, 2026

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This role $177k
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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 1565 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer | Microsoft Careers

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, ensuring tenant isolation and least privilege access, and collaborating with security teams to meet compliance standards. You will also focus on operational excellence by monitoring system performance, participating in on-call rotations, and continuously improving the reliability of the platform. The role requires expertise in languages such as C#, TypeScript, Java, JavaScript, or Python, familiarity with Azure cloud infrastructure, and experience with multitenant enterprise-scale distributed systems. Your work will impact how AI agents authenticate and operate across organizational boundaries at global scale for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agent 365 platforms.

What you'll do

  • Design and build high-scale backend services for secure connection and credential management.
  • Ensure tenant isolation and least privilege access to meet enterprise security requirements.
  • Drive architectural decisions for connection lifecycle, throttling, and resiliency.
  • Implement secure authentication flows using Entra ID, OAuth, and other protocols.
  • Build monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery systems for production reliability.
  • Mentor engineers and lead incident mitigation during on-call rotations.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of technical engineering experience in backend development using C#, TypeScript, Java, JavaScript, Python, etc.
  • Design and operate high-scale backend services for secure connection and credential management.
  • 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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