Principal Engineer - Identity Services

Microsoft Corporation

Redmond, WA

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JOB DETAILS

SALARY

$142,800–$274,800 Per Year

SKILLS

Access Control, Application Programming Interface (API), Authentication, Background Investigation, Cloud Computing, Code Reviews, Computer Science, Computer Security, Cross-Functional, Customer Support/Service, Engineering, GitHub, Go Programming Language (Golang), Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Integrated Circuits (ICs), Java, Leadership, Memory Hardware, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Product Family, Microsoft Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows System Internals/Programming, Node.js, Open Source, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Regulations, Rust Programming Language, Secure Coding, Software Administration, Software Engineering, Systems Maintenance, Telemetry

LOCATION

Redmond, WA

POSTED

9 days ago

**Overview** 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 mission for the Identity for Services (ID4S) Team, part of Microsoft Entra is to make it hard to get authentication and authorization wrong. We believe the tasks to get authentication and authorization right, actively preventing security incidents, and always being updated for a service should be straightforward and at the same time provide operational insights part of the platform. As a team we take meaningful steps daily to achieve our mission supporting developers, (security) operations and administrators. Our solution is used across thousands of internal Microsoft Services, and several of our components making up the solution are available as open source in GitHub. Our goal is to bring all our learnings from running services across Microsoft to everyone through GitHub, Entra, Azure, and beyond. There are still many challenges for us to solve to deliver on our mission and to help us we are looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineer who knows how to build and nurture a high performing team. The role requires experience building seamlessly integrated components which are running in high scale services where elements such as security, resilience, memory, and performance are motivation to get up every day. You work effectively across a large set of organizations and teams across the company operating with a customer first mindset. As a team we work on ensuring our solution utilizes as few resources as possible and we enjoy scrutinizing allocations, we also ensure our API's are no touch (configuration only) and extensible, and we collect telemetry allowing us and service owner with key insights to effectively operate the service. _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._ **Responsibilities** + Build and nurture a high performing team. + Develop and maintain authentication and authorization components for various platforms, including .NET, Rust, Java, Golang, Python, Node.JS. + Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as leadership teams, product managers, service owners and platform teams. + Make data-driven decisions (quantitative and qualitative). + Support service owners ensuring seamless integration. + Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and contribute to the overall improvement of the solution. **Qualifications** **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. **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:** + 6+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting client applications and tools using frameworks such as .NET. 3+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices 2+ years of experience programming for services and clients each 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. (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html)

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