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The mission for the Identity for Services (ID4S) Team, part of Microsoft Entra is to make it hard to get authentication and authorization wrong. We believe the tasks to get authentication and authorization right, actively preventing security incidents, and always being updated for a service should be straightforward and at the same time provide operational insights part of the platform. As a team we take meaningful steps daily to achieve our mission supporting developers, (security) operations and administrators. Our solution is used across thousands of internal Microsoft Services, and several of our components making up the solution are available as open source in GitHub. Our goal is to bring all our learnings from running services across Microsoft to everyone through GitHub, Entra, Azure, and beyond. There are still many challenges for us to solve, to deliver on our mission and to help us we are looking for Senior Software Engineer(s). The role requires experience building seamlessly integrated components which are running in high scale services where elements such as security, resilience, memory, and performance are motivation to get up every day. You work effectively across a large set of organizations and teams across the company operating with a customer first mindset. As a team we work on ensuring our solution utilizes as few resources as possible and we enjoy scrutinizing allocations, we also ensure our API’s are no touch (configuration only) and extensible, and we collect telemetry allowing us and service owners with key insights to effectively operate services.
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