Cambridge Hiring Software Engineer Intern (Security & Identity)

Overview

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft alongside thousands of university interns from around the world. This opportunity lets you bring your aspirations, talent and excitement for the journey ahead.

As a Software Engineering Intern focused on Security & Identity, you will help build secure systems and services that protect users, data, devices and cloud infrastructure. You will work on authentication, authorization, identity, governance, compliance and secure software development. You will work with engineers to identify risks, strengthen defenses and build solutions that help customers operate securely in an increasingly connected world. The role builds expertise in security engineering while contributing to technologies that support trust, privacy and resilience at scale.

Interns at Microsoft work on real-world projects with teams across the world, and have fun along the way. You will be empowered to build community, explore your passions and reach your goals, bringing your ideas to life on cutting-edge technology.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Employees come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize shared goals, building on the values of respect, integrity and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Apply engineering principles to solve complex problems through sound and creative engineering.
• Work with stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature.
• Learn new engineering methods quickly and incorporate them into work processes.
• Seek feedback and apply internal or industry best practices to improve technical solutions.
• Manage time well and complete software projects in a cooperative team environment.
• Review current developments and seek new knowledge that improves the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability and performance of products, while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ year of programming experience.
• 6+ months of experience delivering projects in teams.
• 1+ year of experience developing and applying data structures and algorithms.
• Coursework or experience in cybersecurity, networking, operating systems or secure software development.
• Familiarity with identity and access management concepts, authentication, authorization, RBAC or governance controls.
• Experience building software using C#, Java, Go, Rust, Python or similar languages.
• Interest in threat modeling, secure coding practices, compliance, cloud security and protecting large-scale services.

The base pay range for this internship is USD $5,690.00 to $11,210.00 per month. In the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range is USD $7,410.00 to $12,250.00 per month.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Additional benefits and pay information are available on Microsoft's careers site.

Microsoft accepts applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis throughout the academic calendar (September to April). The position will remain open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted until the position is filled.