Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Jul 16, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. Are you excited by the prospect of building identity and cybersecurity services at cloud scale? Microsoft operates thousands of internal Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) tenants that enable our workforce to develop, monitor, and test Microsoft's software and services. Security of the identity plane that underpins the Microsoft Cloud is a key pillar of our Secure Futures Initiative. The Identity and Access Management Protect (IAM Protect) team builds, secures, and manages these tenants. We develop solutions to fully automate tenant creation, configuration, security, and inventory. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help architect and design the tools and solutions that enable us to build and manage large volumes of highly secure Entra ID tenants. This role will draw deeply upon your expertise in Entra and Azure technologies, your ability to design for scale, and your enthusiasm to mentor and share your knowledge within and across teams. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of security at Microsoft and leveraging your insights to protect Microsoft services and customers, while guiding a group of skilled security software engineers. 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.In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesDesign and build security and identity solutions to protect our employees and customers from cybersecurity threats.Lead efforts and discussions for the architecture of solutions (e.g., design, cost, security) and determine the technology that will be leveraged.Lead design discussions with the team and stakeholders and share learnings from investigations, holding ownership for design decisions.Lead by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across solutions. Identify best practices and coding patterns and provide deep expertise in the coding and validation strategy.Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Implement and help others implement solutions and mitigations to complex issues impacting the performance or functionality of Live Site services.Lead efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility across solutions and teams. Creates and assures the presence of visible evidence to demonstrate compliance for products. Develops and maintains a deep understanding of the implications of onboarding new technologies following expectations of compliance at Microsoft. | |