Principal Software Architect - Microsoft

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, while also taking a leading stance in data privacy and regulatory compliance.   

Data privacy has never been more top of mind than it is today. Governments around the world are passing new privacy legislation at a fast pace, and companies are investing in many aspects of data compliance to meet these new regulations. There is a significant opportunity here to empower customers and teams within Microsoft to meet these regulations and build customer trust. 

If you are looking for an opportunity to move the needle on data privacy, then the Microsoft Data Privacy and Platform team is the right place for you. We have been providing internal data privacy products for all of Microsoft since 2018, operating these products at high scale and availability. We build reliable, highly scalable, highly performing, and distributed systems for scanning, cataloging, classification, and Data Subject Request processing. Our job is to provide privacy infrastructure, to produce meaningful insights about compliance, and to create understandable actions that can be taken to improve. We are leveraging this experience to create new data privacy products that benefit Microsoft and all our customers and partners. As part of our charter, we also help build platform services that ensure all Microsoft Security products have privacy embedded by design. There is a steady stream of new scenarios that create exciting opportunities to work at high scale, impact, and visibility. 

We are hiring a Principal Software Architect to help us design and build these systems and new data privacy products.  

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.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• o OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience driving technical architecture and dependencies 
• 4+ years of experience with distributed 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. 

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

· Bachelors 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

     o OR Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

     o OR equivalent experience.

· 6+ years people management experience.

• . Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field OR equivalent experience. 
• . Experience building privacy, compliance, or data governance informed software or services is a plus.  
• . Experience building software / services with Microsoft Azure is a plus. 
• . Awareness of emerging privacy and data governance related regulations 

Software Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $158,500 - $276,600 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 $202,800 - $304,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

 Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 2, 2024.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical direction for the Data Privacy organization. 
• Empower the organization’s engineering teams with clear architectural principles and framing. 
• Work closely with their peers in related platform and application teams. 
• Help drive the correct technical division between platform and apps. 
• Work internally with architects across the company to ensure that Microsoft’s products can leverage our data privacy products. 
• Understand internal Microsoft privacy requirements so that these can be integrated into our product plans. 
• Evangelize our technical vision for Privacy at industry events, organizations, standard bodies, etc.