Principal Software Engineer - Identity

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 Microsoft Entra group serves over a billion active users, powering the Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Account services that are at the core of almost every Microsoft product and platform like Office, Xbox, HoloLens and Azure. Our engineering team has opportunities for engineers to work across the stack from delivering user-facing experiences to innovations in hyper-scale, geo-distributed, stateful, fault tolerant services. We are the Core Authentication team responsible for the authentication service serving users and devices everywhere, securing access to your favorite applications and services. We are looking for an experienced software engineer with years of technical expertise in building highly scalable and distributed systems to join us to support new and exciting scenarios in the enterprise and customer identity and access management (CIAM) spaces. This opportunity will allow you to work hands-on on a core service serving billions of users each month, and you will need to draw on your deep technical experience to support the team. You will also have an important role in building and shaping the team's engineering culture, work in a collaborative hybrid work environment, and embrace a live site-first mentality, which is required to run critical services at hyper-scale. You’ll join a team of amazing and passionate software engineers, who will help you to learn and grow every day.

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.

We are looking for a curious and passionate engineer with experience in high throughput and multi-tenant services, an ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability.  

Specifically, you will:

• Provide technical leadership for the team, develop your own technical designs as well as contribute, coach, and review technical designs from teams across Microsoft.

• Partner with key stakeholders to drive improvements and change across multiple teams across multiple geographies in the Microsoft Entra organization.

• Design, develop, and un large scale distributed software services and solutions.

• Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability and monitoring for production services.

• 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.

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