Overview
Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft AI-First 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.

We are looking to hire a Principal Software Engineer to join the Sentinel Platform team who thrives in a bottom-up, fast-paced, highly technical environment. If you have a customer focus and understand the importance of Live Site, with a demonstrated ability to establish and manage relationships across organizational boundaries, and proven experience dealing with large scale data architecture and proven experience creating distributed systems tools of moderate-to-high complexity, come join our team! The Sentinel Platform team will be building cloud solutions meeting scales that few companies in the industry are required to support, that leverage cutting-edge AI technologies to deliver holistic protection to a planet scale user base. The Sentinel Platform team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, cloud design, infrastructures development and end-to-end implementation. You will independently determine and develop architectural approaches and Infrastructure solutions, conduct business reviews, and operate our production services. Collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users.

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.

Responsibilities:

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who can innovate and deliver scalable, secure services. The role covers key platform areas including provisioning, flighting, data ingestion/curation, billing, and security. You will apply your expertise in building and operating high-scale distributed systems with AI technologies, prototyping solutions, and making decisions in ambiguous situations. Collaboration across teams is essential to deliver a high‑quality platform for partners and customers.

Lead by example by producing secure, high‑performance, maintainable code. Continuously improve code quality using metrics, identify and escalate blockers, and ensure designs meet performance, scalability, resiliency, cost, and disaster‑recovery requirements. Apply best practices for secure design, validate security invariants, and drive alignment with partner teams to deliver capabilities that meet customer needs.

Qualifications:

Required qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. Other
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.
  Additional or preferred qualifications

Master'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 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.4+ years people management experience. #Microsoft #Security

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.