Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Aug 06, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity 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. As part of this role, you will work with Microsoft Graph Change Notifications (MGCN)-a mission-critical platform that delivers real-time change alerts across Microsoft 365 workloads. MGCN supports high-throughput, low-latency delivery via Webhooks, Event Hubs, and Event Grid, servicing over 150 billion monthly requests. The platform plays a pivotal role in enabling secure, scalable, and resilient event-driven architectures, powering scenarios such as workflow automation, compliance monitoring, and data synchronization. Candidates with experience in distributed systems, event streaming, or Graph API integrations will thrive in this environment. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesDesign and implement scalable event-driven architectures leveraging Microsoft Graph Change Notifications (MGCN) to support real-time data synchronization, compliance monitoring, and workflow automation across Microsoft 365 workloads. Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, security engineers, and partner teams to define and refine requirements, ensuring MGCN integrations meet performance, reliability, and privacy standards. Drive innovation in distributed systems and cloud services, applying deep technical expertise to build resilient, low-latency, high-throughput notification pipelines using technologies like Azure Event Hubs, Event Grid, and Webhooks. Lead operational excellence efforts, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response for MGCN services, ensuring high availability and minimal disruption to downstream consumers. Mentor and support engineering peers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and inclusive collaboration within the team and broader identity platform organization.OtherEmbody our Culture and Values | |