Principal Software Engineer

Requirements:

• You will work on some lynchpin services in Identity with colleagues from all around the globe.
• Our services process millions of requests per second, powering hundreds of billions of authentications per day, and with challenging availability targets (>99.99%).
• You will be part of the team shipping critical software quickly and safely.
• This is a hands-on role, you will need to be a team player, equally comfortable designing the better mousetrap, and rolling up your sleeves to ship the new mousetrap from whiteboard into production.

Nice to Haves:

• Strong track record as a hands-on engineer designing and delivering elegant solutions to meet complex design and architectural challenges in a cloud services environment.
• Excellent communications skills, comfortable presenting to large audiences and customers.
• Prior experience with performance analysis and optimization of web services and software.
• Prior experience working in the Identity and/or Security domains.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Principal/Lead Engineer level experience in software engineering.
• Deep practical experience operating high-scale services in production environments. You’ve got hard-earned experience and opinions on what great observability looks like, what safe deployments look like and whether to push code on Fridays.
• Prior experience building services which run on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Perks and Benefits:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
• Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.