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. The Opportunity Conditional Access is the real-time Zero Trust policy engine at the heart of Microsoft Entra ID. Every sign-in, every token, every agent request across Microsoft's identity platform flows through the system you'll shape. We're evolving CA from a human-centric access control layer into a universal policy engine for users, workloads, and AI agents — and we need a Principal Engineer to drive that architectural transformation. You'll own the technical vision for how Conditional Access scales to meet the next generation of identity: autonomous agents, continuous authorization, data-plane enforcement, and policy portability across authentication and runtime boundaries. 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.