Principal Software Engineer

** Overview*
* The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

** TEAM OVERVIEW** :
The Insider Risk team is Microsoft's enterprise authority for identifying, assessing, investigating, and mitigating insider risk across the company. We protect Microsoft's people, data, systems, facilities, and operations by building proactive capabilities that help detect and respond to risks involving authorized access, sensitive environments, and critical assets. Our work brings together security engineering, data science, investigations, intelligence, governance, and cross-company partnerships with Legal, HR, Privacy, Security, and other organizations to reduce risk while upholding Microsoft's commitments to trust, privacy, and responsible operations.

** ROLE OVERVIEW:
** We are looking for a  
** Principal Software Engineer
** to help shape and build the technical foundations of Microsoft's Insider Risk platform. In this role, you will lead architecture and engineering efforts across risk modeling, behavioral analytics, detections, monitoring, investigation workflows, case orchestration, and large-scale security data systems. You will partner closely with investigators, data scientists, security teams, and business stakeholders to turn complex risk scenarios into scalable, privacy-conscious engineering solutions.

This is an opportunity to drive high-impact security innovation at enterprise scale and help Microsoft proactively protect its most critical assets.

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*
* + Define and drive the technical strategy for core Insider Risk engineering systems that help Microsoft proactively identify, assess, investigate, and mitigate enterprise insider risk.

+ Lead architecture and delivery of scalable, secure, and privacy-conscious platforms that operate across Microsoft's large and complex data estate, including risk signals, detections, behavioral analytics, investigation workflows, and case orchestration.

+ Negotiate priorities, dependencies, and technical tradeoffs with partner teams across the enterprise, driving alignment on shared outcomes, delivery plans, and durable platform integrations.

+ Partner with Security, Legal, HR, Privacy, investigations, data science, and business stakeholders to translate sensitive and ambiguous risk scenarios into practical, high-impact engineering solutions.

+ Uphold the highest standards of discretion, confidentiality, privacy, and compliance in how Insider Risk capabilities are designed, operated, monitored, and communicated.

+ Mentor and influence engineers across teams, raising the bar for design quality, code quality, reliability, security, operational excellence, and…