Identity Access Management is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud strategy. We build and operate critical authentication, authorization and directory services that are used by the millions of Azure, Office, XBOX and Windows users worldwide. In the mobile-first cloud-first world, sign-in and sign-up is the front door for reliable end user experience to use any of Microsoft cloud services. 

Azure hosts millions of tenants and billions of identities. It serves billions of requests per day in the core authentication and the core directory stack. The org is innovating and investing heavily to evolve the service to address the needs of the future. 

The Identity Access Management (CIEM) team is hiring engineers who are passionate to work on high scale, distributed, highly available, and secure cloud native services.  You will have an opportunity to work on the latest technologies in storage, distributed systems and apply innovative algorithms for solving problems at scale and high performance. We need collaborative developers who can think big and find creative ways to meet these big challenges.  

Responsibilities

• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions that are engineered for scale, high performance & availability and are highly reliable.
• Own and deliver complete features, including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging and shipping.
• Gain an understanding over time of Microsoft businesses and processes and collaborate with stakeholders to contribute to a cohesive set of capabilities built to deliver a frictionless experience.
• Demonstrate analytical thinking with strong problem-solving skills, out of box thinking and drive for results.
• Contribute to our new cloud-based architecture leveraging technologies such as Akka, Kafka, Apache Spark with Scala.
• Design, implement, validate, and release components/services/systems using your software engineering skills in an Agile team.
• Work in a modern DevOps culture, administering your service in Azure, implementing infrastructure as code, automating manual operations processes, and supporting/ troubleshooting production live site incidents.
• Design and implement accurate and actionable monitoring to maintain business Service Level Agreements and system health.
• Mentor your team members, pair program, participate in code reviews, and delegate work to encourage professional and technical growth of those around you.
• Constantly learn, evaluate both existing and emerging technologies, deliver POCs and evaluate needs for service modernization and enhancements.
• collaborate with other teams and disciplines and drive improvements in engineering across our organization.

Qualifications

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience delivering scalable and resilient services at large enterprise scale.
• 5+ years of experience in data platforms including large-scale analytics on relational, structured and unstructured data
• 5+ years Backend Development experience.

• 5+ years of experience with Scala.
• 2+ years of experience with Kafka.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline
• Knowledge of data-structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design patterns 
• Experience developing distributed data processing pipelines  
• Experience writing and debugging asynchronous and multi-threaded code 
• Experience developing services that run on a public cloud platform  
• Able to rotate an on-call schedule with availability after hours and on weekends to respond to critical live site issues