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. The M365 product portfolio makes up some of the most widely used and trusted productivity applications and services in the world, and is driving AI value through CoPilots. M365 Security is a Growth Mindset team. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join us in taking in new information from diverse sources like internal service partners, bug bounty reports, penetration tests, and external customer feedback to learn more about improving how we can keep our customer's data secure. 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. **Responsibilities** - Drive understanding and decision making around Security Incidents and the Post Incident Review (PIR) Process - Driving Secure Engineering policies, practices, and tooling across user-facing services at Microsoft, including AI platforms and implementations - Helping guide Engineering Teams across Microsoft on security best practices - Collaborating with teams across Microsoft to help define the state of the art for detection, prevention, and elimination of security risks - Identifying emerging security problems that need additional focus, and contributing to building solutions to solve them, often utilizing AI - Mentoring others inside and outside of Microsoft on building secure platforms and systems - Plan and manage an expanding portfolio of security and privacy programs and track associated metrics - Create and present plans to management for driving security and privacy objectives across M365 services - Represent Microsoft in various customer briefings and security conferences **Other** + Embody our Culture and Values **Qualifications** **Required 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 Python o OR equivalent experience. + 4+ years of experience in the software development lifecycle, designing or developing software and services, large scale computing, modeling, cyber security and anomaly detection. **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 **Preferred Qualifications:** + Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Networking, Information Assurance, Cyber Security, Mathematics, Risk Management, or related field OR equivalent experience. 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 on an ongioing basis. \#MSFTSecurity \#Purview #DataGovernance \#AI \#SHPE24MSFT \#M365Security 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. 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