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 mission for the Identity for Services (ID4S) Team, part of Microsoft Entra is to make it hard to get authentication and authorization wrong. We believe the tasks to get authentication and authorization right, actively preventing security incidents, and always being updated for a service should be straightforward and at the same time provide operational insights part of the platform. As a team we take meaningful steps daily to achieve our mission supporting developers, (security) operations and administrators. Our solution is used across thousands of internal Microsoft Services, and several of our components making up the solution are available as open source in GitHub. Our goal is to bring all our learnings from running services across Microsoft to everyone through GitHub, Entra, Azure, and beyond. We are looking to hire an experienced Principal Software Engineer who knows how to build and nurture a high performing team. The role requires experience building seamlessly integrated components which are running in high scale services where elements such as security, resilience, memory, and performance are motivation to get up every day. You work effectively across a large set of organizations and teams across the company operating with a customer first mindset. As a team we work on ensuring our solution utilizes as few resources as possible and we enjoy scrutinizing allocations, we also ensure our APIs are no touch (configuration only) and extensible, and we collect telemetry allowing us and service owner with key insights to effectively operate the service.