Principal Software Engineer - Security Architect

Principal Software Engineer - Security Architect

Multiple Locations, United States

Date posted: Job number: 1791723

Work site: Up to 100% work from home

Travel: 0-25 %

Role type: Full-Time

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.

We are looking to hire a Principal Software Engineer - Security Architect to oversee system design, security defenses, and software engineering development for identity systems within the enterprise and the Microsoft cloud. The mission of the team is to enable Microsoft to build the most trusted devices and services while keeping our company safe and our data protected.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• 4+ years participating in the architecture of a significant portion of one of the following 5 clouds - AWS, Azure, GCP, Meta, or Oracle Cloud.
• 3+ years experience in a role whose primary responsibility is writing code.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of cyber-security experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering teams to understand and improve the security posture of many systems related to Identity.
• Collaborate with teams to bring to fruition cross-company security initiatives.
• Assist engineering teams in resolving difficult technical problems.
• Provide vision and thought leadership for state-of-the-art security of the Microsoft estate.
• When needed, engage hands-on with the building, operations, and security of services, systems, and applications.

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.