Microsoft Principal Software Engineer

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Posted date: Feb 13, 2025

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Category: Software Engineering

Location: Redmond, WA

Estimated salary: $215,800
Range: $137,600 - $294,000

Employment type: Full-Time

Travel amount: 25.0%

Work location type: Up to 50% work from home

Role: Individual Contributor


Description

In a world facing relentless digital threats, regulatory challenges, and growing estate complexity, security is paramount for our customers. The Microsoft Entra Identity Governance team is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to reshape security and deliver end-to-end, simplified solutions that empower every user, customer, and developer.

Our team enables organizations to boost productivity, fortify security, and effortlessly meet compliance and regulatory requirements. As part of the Microsoft Security organization, which drives Microsoft’s mission to secure digital platforms and clouds in diverse environments, we play a critical role in protecting our customers and our own internal estate.

Design and develop distributed systems.Take ownership of writing, testing, and maintaining high-quality code. Resolve complex system integration challenges working across team boundaries. Share learnings and code assets developed with the Entra Governance engineering team.Utilize product expertise to collaborate with stakeholders and drive project and release plans for the workgroup.Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), guiding engineers with the playbook, monitoring system performance, alerting stakeholders, and initiating actions to resolve problems.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience.5+ years of experience with system architecture and building scalable systems.Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 19, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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