Principal Software Engineer

** Overview*
* 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 Identity and Access Management team enables customers to govern the lifecycle and access of all identities including employees, agents, non-human and partners through Entra Identity Governance product. The team is looking for an action-oriented Principal Software Engineer who will expand the scope of our governance and provisioning products across human/non-human identities accessing applications, directories and resources in customers' cloud and hybrid environments.

The role provides great opportunities to collaborate across Microsoft and a large ecosystem of industry players who develop top business applications to deliver IAM and governance solutions. We live a culture which is customer focused, biased towards action and always learning. We are a diverse team, and we embrace people from all backgrounds, to help us build the best identity products and services in the world.

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*
* + Design and develop features for large scale distributed software services and solutions.

+ Communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries and customers.

+ Adhere to modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews. 

+ System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.

+ Develop "best-in-class" engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable. 

+ Write clean and optimized code, improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.

+ Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.

+ Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.

+ Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.

+ Champion and model usage of AI across the entire software development lifecycle and operations.

+ Embody our Culture  () and Values ()

** Qualifications*
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* Required Qualifications:

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* + 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 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:

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** Microsoft Cloud Background Check:
** This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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* Preferred qualifications:

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* + 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…