New 
Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Feb 25, 2025 | |
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OverviewAs a Principal Software Engineer in this group, you will help us build and architect new services and experiences that will extend our portfolio of world-class solutions for protecting M365. You will be responsible for architecting and driving new investments to solve hard problems, defining architecture, partnering with teammates, and ensuring high code quality, availability, scalability, and security of our services. You will have opportunities to learn and grow in your role developing services in Azure. You will partner effectively with other members of our team and partner teams to deliver value and impact to Microsoft security products. As part of the Microsoft Security organization, you will have a direct impact in contributing to 'Security above all else' as part of the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI), driven by our mission to protect customer data and privacy in the world's largest productivity suite. You'll work directly on advanced technologies, including access control, secrets management, data analysis, DevOps, and engineering processes. Join us in our mission to build the best security-first culture in the world, leading the way in protecting our M365 services with cutting-edge security solutions! 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.
ResponsibilitiesImprove application security maturity at scale by designing, implementing, and building security solutions. Partner with product managers and security leaders to ensure security maturity work is being prioritized and addressed across Microsoft 365 services. Building prototypes and proof-of-concept code, working alongside the engineering teams to provide advice on secure design and implementation. Providing design guidance and security reviews to engineering teams and improving security maturity. Develop "best-in-class" engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined, modularized, secure, reliable, testable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable. Solve significant technological challenges impacting the team and our customers esp. those related to service to service authentication and credential management Partner and collaborate with peer engineers and customers to deliver impact on our products. Work closely with our internal/external partners to support the team's mission. Participate and provide high quality feedback in design reviews, code reviews and other team activities. Build automation to prevent and/or remediate service problems from becoming production incidents. Influence key decisions and create collaborative agreements about sequencing work while maintaining good relationships across teams. Drive technical investigations and prototype in a fast-paced startup environment. Embody our culture and values | |