Principal Front End Software Engineer

The Cloud Ecosystem Security team is one of Microsoft's fastest growing businesses, with the mission to make the world safer and more productive for all. The team protects Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform, builds security product offerings for customers across clouds, and contributes to the global ecosystem of defenders, researchers and security policy makers.  

As the Principal Front End Software Engineer, you will lead product features and experiences for a new security marketplace offering. This exciting new product offering will help partners build on new security platform capabilities such as Security Copilot, extend capabilities of Microsoft’s existing security products (Defender, Sentinel and Purview across M365 and Azure), and offer organizations of all sizes a purpose-built, trustworthy one-stop marketplace that meets their security software needs.  

The successful candidate will be an experienced software development leader, with a track record of collaboration working across diverse and complex teams. Deep customer empathy and the ability to translate individual customer needs into requirements for broad platform experiences is critical.  

This leader will be building innovative, engaging, and differentiated user experiences that make the real world easier to explore. 

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. 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 
• 5+ years of Web UI development experience including responsive design/progressive web apps.  
• 3+ years of experience designing, building and shipping large marketplaces or scale cloudservices 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Prior deep experience in building security applications/services or extensive experience building online marketplaces and digital storefront experiences 
• Experience running engineering teams or projects with ambiguity  
• Experience working across disciplines and teams with collaboration 
• Track record in developing Web-centric features, frameworks, or services using C#, Java, JavaScript, HTML5, or similar languages

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $173,200 - $282,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Responsibilities 

• Drive task planning, code reviews and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents 
• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., product management, architect) to determine user requirements within and across teams. 
• Experienced design and problem-solving skills, with a focus for quality and engineering excellence at scale 
• Creates and applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices. 
• Acts as a leader and advocate for software development fundamentals and best practices in all aspects of development including tooling and processes in their own and partner teams 

Embody our Culture and Values