Principal Software Engineer

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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.

We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer - Architect to join our mission of securing access to world’s online resources by building and operating an authorization platform with world class fundamentals that makes Microsoft customers the most secure and productive in the world.

Microsoft Identity & Network Access (IDNA) is at the heart of the day-to-day technology experience and secures over a billion monthly active users.

It powers the identity experience which is at the core of almost every Microsoft product and service from Windows to Office, from Azure to Xbox.

Microsoft Identity is a booming business and we’re just getting started on our mission to secure and protect the world’s most valuable assets and most highly trafficked services.

We innovate on multiple technical aspects:

Architecting services for large scale and low latency requirements to handle millions of requests per minute completing under 10ms.

Security investments that span authorization frameworks such as role-based and attribute-based.

Experiences to understand access to resources in a way that is simple to comprehend and achieve least standing privileges.

Build a resilient platform that works for all services offered by Azure and Microsoft as well as extend to work where our customer enterprises run their applications beyond Azure.

Secure Azure across all the services to reduce the surface area by granular controls and having least standing privileges between systems.

Demonstrated ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud: Understanding of cloud infrastructure and services.
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills: Ability to diagnose issues, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions.
Proven experience in building scalable and reliable software solutions.
5+ years architecting distributed systems.

Software Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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