Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft Corporation

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. As a Principal Software Engineer on this team, you will get an amazing opportunity to demonstrate leadership at both technology and business level. We are looking for a highly dedicated and hands-on Principal Software Engineer to come and help us develop and light up innovative security solutions. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will work as an architect on designing, evangelizing and building complete security solutions. You will have the opportunity to work on one or more services for designing Threat Intelligence services for Microsoft. This will be highly scalable services that will secure customers high value assets and digital assets.To be successful in this role, you will have a great track record of leading an efficient engineering team and delivering quality results to customers, an innate aptitude for agility, and technical excellence in large fundamental cloud engineering.? Our team prides itself on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves.? You will be part of a diverse, fast growing and agile team working with a motivated team of engineers and product managers. Our culture is more like a startup - we will do what is necessary to help customers be successful, move fast, and have fun building meaningful products and services! 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** + Architecture, evangelization, design, development,?of a new ground up threat intelligence service. + Leadership of initiatives to deliver complex features, improve product quality, and transform team operations. + Introduction of state-of-the-art technologies to the team and technical mentorship of team members + Design and develop features for large scale distributed software services and solutions.? + Be the technical champion in the team with industry research, go technologically deep, by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.? + Identification and implementation of tools to improve team quality and productivity + Collaboration with Product Managers, Architects, and security experts on new features. **Qualifications** **Required/Minimum 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. + 1+ years of experience authoring backend services using C# or Java. **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 10+ 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 of experience working on large scale cloud applications, distributed systems, and backend development. + 2+ years of experience designing distributed, NRT (near real-time) or Big Data 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 background and 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 December 25, 2024. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .