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 Application Identities Platform Team belongs to the Microsoft Entra organization (formerly called Azure Active Directory), which offers the Identity platform for Microsoft 365, Azure, and many software companies and helps them create cloud services that are secure and reliable. Our team's role is to make it easy for developers to give their applications an identity that can be verified and granted access to resources. We also provide experiences for administrators and end users that help them to make smart and secure authorization choices when they need to let applications access their data. We solve highly complex problems in the critically important cloud security space. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who can help us architect. implement, and deliver high-quality and high-scale cloud services that meet the needs of our customers and partners. You will have the opportunity to work on challenging and impactful problems and collaborate with a diverse and talented team. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to the broader Identity community and ecosystem, both within and outside Microsoft.

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.

• 2+ years of experience managing software engineers as well as developing highly effective engineering teams.
• 2+ years of experience architecting and designing complex software systems / distributed 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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

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 this role until June 28, 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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• Manage, coach and mentor engineers, build a high-performing engineering team.
• Develop and maintain a wide and deep knowledge of our platform and the space, recognize problems, Identity opportunities, design solutions.
• Work closely with customers and partners to understand their requirements and scenarios, and effectively lead towards delivering the necessary solutions.
• Define a direction for your team to deliver such solutions and adjust and change course as needed when facing challenges.
• Collaborate with other engineers, program managers, and designers across the Entra organization and beyond to deliver end-to-end experiences that delight our customers and users.

Other

• Embody our Culture and Values