Principal Software Engineer - Systems Architect

Microsoft

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About The Position

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. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer – Systems Architect to work with a high-impact team in CISO Security Engineering. With the future of security in development, CISO Security Engineering is looking for a Principal Systems Engineering Architect to define the tools and infrastructure. In this role, you will apply your software engineering and architecture skills to solve varied technical challenges that are critical to the security of Microsoft’s products and customers. As a Principal Software Engineering Architect in the Microsoft CISO organization you will have a unique opportunity to influence security across the company and industry and have a direct impact on protecting our customers and their data. You will drive designing, evolving and maintaining the architecture of complex security systems. You will collaborate with product managers and engineering managers to align technical solutions and business goals. 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ experience operating and influencing teams in a complex, matrixed organization
• Experience bringing clarity to ambiguity by defining success metrics, aligning stakeholders, and authoring strategic direction documents that drive cross-functional execution.

Responsibilities

• Leads Security Design and Architecture: Analyze and understand challenges in security business domain. . Develop and build durable solutions.. Own the technical approach to create and improve architecture. Deeply understand evolving security risk, security research, and security tradeoffs associated with engineering patterns and approaches.
• Guide cross-functional teams through architectural discussions and decision-making for solution components, including design, compliance and cost considerations.
• Develop and present architecture and design proposals: lead the testing and validation of hypotheses and proposed solutions.
• Author Well-Designed, Scalable, Reliable Code: Author thoughtful, well-designed secure code, including libraries for essential security functions, proof-of-concept code, and bugs or foundational changes. Effectively share findings from technical investigations.
• Collaborate with Partner Teams: Collaborate with the broader security engineering team and product teams to understand product and platform architecture and develop thoughtful security improvements.
• Lead the creation of design documentation and user stories: determine appropriate technologies and their interactions. Facilitate and contribute to design discussions, ensuring alignment across teams and incorporating learnings from prior work.
• Nurture Talent: Mentor other engineers throughout the design and testing process.
• Embody our culture and values

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees