Software Engineer II
Microsoft Corporation
Nairobi, Kenya
Job posting number: #7311533 (Ref:ms-1834335)
Posted: June 29, 2025
Job Description
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.
As a Software Engineer II on the Hybrid Identity team, you will play a key role in building and evolving the synchronization engine that bridges on-premises identity systems with Microsoft Entra ID. You’ll work at the heart of hybrid identity, contributing to the reliability, scalability, and performance of one of Microsoft’s most critical identity services. This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll design and implement core components using .NET and modern Azure services. You’ll collaborate across teams to ensure secure and seamless identity provisioning for millions of users. You’ll also be expected to debug complex synchronization issues, automate recovery workflows, and drive durable fixes that improve the health of our production systems.
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.