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Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WA$119.8k - $234.7kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer to build and operate automated systems powering Identity’s security posture measurement framework. Owns governance state machine, real-time risk evaluation, escalations, and cross-team actions. High-impact role focusing on data-informed decision making, partner engagement, and customer-focused security solutions within Microsoft Entra Identity Security.

Responsibilities

  • Design and operate security state management systems that track posture, apply threshold-based logic, and drive multi-level escalation decisions
  • Build automated response and remediation workflows, including incident creation, notifications, deployment safeguards, and escalation actions when risk thresholds are breached
  • Own and scale core cloud-based governance platform infrastructure, ensuring high reliability, scalability, observability, and efficient processing of security signals
  • Engineer escalation and prioritization mechanisms that trigger coordinated response workflows and cross-team mobilization during elevated risk states
  • Develop intelligent alerting and routing systems with de-duplication, correlation, and smart routing to reduce noise and maximize actionable signal for engineering teams
  • Integrate security telemetry and risk signals by partnering with data engineering to operationalize metrics and feed them into decisioning and automation workflows
  • Incorporate predictive risk modeling by collaborating with data science to embed forecasting and propensity models into prioritization and escalation logic
  • Ensure 24/7 system reliability and resilience through robust monitoring, failover mechanisms, and self-healing capabilities
  • Support incident response and rapid mitigation by building systems that enable fast adaptation, controlled overrides, and recovery during active security events

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.

Skills

Required:Software engineering
Nice to have:Distributed systemsBackend languageAutomation / reliability engineeringEvent-driven / state machinesAzure / cloud servicesInfrastructure as codeSecure system designTechnical leadership
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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