Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions.

The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

The ID Cache Team is part of Microsoft Security’s Identity division, focused on providing managed caching infrastructure for internal customers. We build and operate a cloud-like offering where our customers request a set of caching clusters and we take care of everything else. We are responsible for all parts of the system, including managing OS level and application updates, monitoring, lifecycle management and incident remediation.

We build our platform at scale in public and sovereign clouds. Because of the scale and environmental diversity, automation and its continuous improvement is our daily bread. We use open-source tools, such as Ansible and Telegraf as well as Microsoft specific automation frameworks. We also develop from scratch components of our system where we have outgrown standard solutions.

Our culture values curiosity, ownership, and continuous improvement — whether we’re investigating issues, tweaking our monitoring system or preparing a complex migration of the entire fleet. If you are passionate about combining software engineering with systems engineering and dev-ops, and intrigued by being responsible for a platform with large scale, ID Cache is the place for you.

• Design, test and implement a scalable infrastructure platform and automation workflows.

• Own end-to-end development of features, ensuring high reliability and operational stability.

• Collaborate across engineering, product, and incident management teams to drive improvements in service health, observability, and operational readiness.

• Participate in on-call rotations and live site investigations, applying structured debugging and telemetry analysis to resolve issues efficiently.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR master’s degree in computer science or related technical field AND 1+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.