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.

Azure Platform Security Team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer. As a Principal Software Engineer in Azure Security organization, you will lead your team to build highly scalable, available, and secure cloud services that protect entire Azure infrastructure with millions of machines. You will be responsible for the architecture, scalability, operationalization, of Identity, Attestation access management, secrets protection, deployment integrity services for Azure infrastructure. You will provide vision for the services you own, develop strategy aligning with stake holders and develop execution plans to successfully deliver team's commitments. Your primary responsibilities include architecting, designing, coding and operationalizing security services at hyper scale that will help ensure Azure is the most secure cloud operating system in the world! Produce crisp designs with tradeoffs, present and gather stake holder consensus. Guide other engineers by following established design and coding patterns, be the bar riser. Identify and drive dependencies for given services and features. Drive architecture improvements to reduce operational burden on services and team. Improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products at scale. Crisply plan and communicate feature delivery schedule, risks.

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