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. Our culture is centred 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. 

This is a Research Efficiency Platform team which provides leadership, direction, and accountability for Security Researchers tools and platforms, CICD, AI/ML, Virtualization and infrastructure, and secured development standards. You will help conduct business reviews and operate our production services. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services and systems are highly stable, performant, and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users.  

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help us design, architect and build large scale platforms, cloud services and engineering systems. You will work in collaboration with other Engineers, Researchers, Data Scientists and Architects to continue to learn and build your skill sets on how to innovate the design approach of said pipelines and services. 

Skills Required   

• Coding experience C#, Python or other equivalent programming languages and 10+ years of development experience in Enterprise environments.  

• Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills  

• Ability to work on Greenfield projects from ideation to productionalize.  

• Proven experience with building and supporting services, including logging, monitoring, alerting, and measuring reliability and availability.      

Preferred Experiences and Technologies:    

• Azure Cloud and multi cloud development and deployment.     

• Hands-on scripting knowledge in PowerShell / Bash 

• Platform development experience for production environments   

• Experience with architecting solutions for complex distributed problems 

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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.    

If you are highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottom-up, fast paced, highly technical environment you have a strong customer focus and understand the importance of Live Site Demonstrated ability to establish and manage relationships across organizational boundaries. Proven experience dealing with large scale data architecture, operational architecture and or network Architecture Proven experience creating distributed systems tools of moderate to high complexity.     

• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions 

• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews 

• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions 

• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable. 

• Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas 

• Considers testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understands when code is ready to be shared and delivered 

• Exposes test coverage issues, organizes and implements integration tests, and resolves problem areas 

• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users 

• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach 

• Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability and monitoring for Live Site 

• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users. 

• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach. 

• Ability to deal with ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment by providing clarity 

• Leadership skills: Including judgement, resolution, negotiating and decision-making skills. 

• Ability to technically mentor Junior/Mid-Career engineers.