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Principal Software Engineer - Security Architect

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Microsoft Corporation

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United States , Redmond

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Salary:

163000.00 - 296400.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. 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. As part of the Microsoft Security organization, and a steward of Microsoft and our customer's data, a core function of Microsoft DSR is ensuring the security of every aspect of the business. Microsoft DSR is responsible for company-wide information security and compliance, with a strategic focus on information protection, assessment, awareness, governance, and enterprise business continuity.

Job Responsibility:

  • 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
  • Embody our culture and values

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check

Nice to have:

  • 10+ years in design or architecture of large scale, security critical systems
  • 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 in which the primary responsibility is writing code
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of cyber-security experience

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 05, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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