Principal Software Engineer

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 Azure Key Vault team is responsible for key and secrets management for Microsoft products. The service enables Azure customers to encrypt data at rest, provision and auto-rotate TLS certificates, and securely manage credentials for resource access. The service operates at cloud scale with 99.99 availability. The team is under the Identity division in Microsoft’s Security organization and is responsible for ensuring customers trust Microsoft’s cloud platform.

We’re looking to hire a Principal Software Engineer who wants to apply their experience and skills to create something that our business and customers need. You’ll have a meaningful and visible impact on security and reliability of services across Microsoft. You’ll lead your team to make product and technology decisions. You’ll execute on a fast-paced timeline with a team of individuals who have a track record of successful delivery. We value multiculturalism, hearing every voice, and inclusion, in all aspects of what we do. Diversity is the foundation and an intrinsic part of our culture – our team has a sense of accountability; we value and explicitly support each and every individual in their learning and career growth.

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 field 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.
• 2+ years of professional experience leading a team of software engineers as a People Manager or Tech Lead.
• 3+ years of professional experience building, running and maintaining highly resilient, distributed cloud services.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 6+ years of experience building, running and maintaining highly resilient, distributed cloud services.
• Experience designing and building customer facing features for enterprise scenarios.
• Experience working across teams and divisions, communicating technical details clearly across organizational boundaries and with a history of building partnerships between groups.
• Effective communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
• Experience in applying microservices, serverless, event-driven, and RESTful architectures and patterns.
• Effective problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills, with a data-driven and customer-centric approach. Experience in identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks, reliability issues, and security vulnerabilities using data-driven analysis and troubleshooting tools.
• Experience in applying modern software engineering practices and tools, such as Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Git, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), Unit/Integration/Automation Testing A growth mindset, with the willingness to learn new technologies and domains.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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 will accept applications for the role until January 24th, 2024.

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.

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• Work on the core of Azure, building and securing the foundation of the cloud itself. Work across Azure to seamlessly integrate our service with partner teams, Azure product offerings, and our customers’ cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor and grow developers on the team, create an environment where you and your team can do its best work, and influence and impact others through your results and collaboration.
• Develop and execute on a technical strategy for delivering new service capabilities.
• Guide the team to build intuitive and responsive user and developer experiences.
• Be responsible for technical design, implementation and quality of features and engineering systems.
• Interact and collaborate with partner teams to deliver cohesive, easy to use solutions for the Azure platform.
• Build on our Microsoft principles (create clarity, generate energy, deliver success) and values (respect, integrity, accountability) to effectively collaborate and make things happen.

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• Embody our Culture and Values