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 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.

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology to build products and platform that has global scale of deployment and impact? Do you like to build cloud services to solve interesting security problems in order to protect critical cloud infrastructure? Do you want the experience of working in a startup team with potential for huge impact to the business and your career in near future? Do you dream of working alongside talented software engineers and passionate professionals and help build software and systems to protect the foundations of Microsoft Cloud, protecting Thousands of Enterprises and millions of users and Microsoft's key cloud assets.

Datacenter Cyber Security team is one of the core Security Software Development team focused on building tools, services and applications that ensure that the foundation of Microsoft cloud business has rock-solid security, meeting highest industry bar for quality, and is constantly evolving to counter the rapidly changing threat landscape.

We are looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineer who can help build a platform and services for Secure Devices management from the ground up. Successful candidates will be full stack developers who have expertise in building software systems with high-quality and scalability. The job role expects experience in cybersecurity products /systems design and development. You would be working in an exciting and fast-paced, diverse team environment, collaborating with multiple teams in Microsoft, building sophisticated security systems and Cloud services that protect industrial facilities and datacenters across the world. This is also a rare opportunity to build Enterprise software and services that require knowledge and experience in systems with hardware devices, networking elements and cloud services components.

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.

• Design, review and develop systems and end to end solutions with high quality (availability, scalability extensibility, modularity, reliability, resilience) and security.
• Undertake system analysis to identify challenges in software systems and take ownership to build and deploy solutions with high quality architecture, designs and implementation.
• Lead and motivate passionate and talented engineers of the team in secure SDLC and continuous improvement in services to enhance quality, resilience and improved customer satisfaction.
• Mentor new and junior engineers to bring them with software development principles and practices through effective software design patterns.
• Proactive engagement with Partner/PM teams for analysis of Engineering requirements and collaboration with Engineering teams to drive and build solutions with right engineering design principles.