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.

The Privileged Access Control (PAC) team within Identity & Network Access (IDNA) is building the next generation of Microsoft’s just-in-time privileged-access platform. Our systems protect high-value production and customer environments by replacing standing privileges with policy-driven, time-bound access that is approved and fully auditable.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across the broader privileged-access ecosystem and expand the scope of our governance and provisioning products across human and non-human identities. This engineer will shape the architecture of highly available security services, drive convergence across existing access platforms, and enable Microsoft engineers and automated workloads to obtain only the access they need, when it is justified and authorized.

This is a high-impact individual contributor role at the intersection of identity, security, authorization, distributed systems, and platform engineering.

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.

• Design and develop features for large-scale, distributed software services and solutions using AI-assisted development methods.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to customers and stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
• Design systems with well-defined interfaces across multiple components, participate in code reviews, and use data and telemetry to inform engineering decisions.
• Build high-quality services and components that are modular, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable.
• Champion and model the effective use of AI throughout the software development lifecycle and operational processes.
• Embody our Culture and Values.

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, or Python 
• OR equivalent experience.

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: 

• 5+ years of experience architecting and designing highly available, resilient, and high-scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years of experience developing backend services using C#.
• Experience with security, identity, authorization, privileged access management, or related technologies.

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Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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.