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. 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.

 

Are you an experienced engineer with a passion for solving critical security challenges in today’s digital landscape? Do you have a proven track record of leading teams and building high-scale, complex platforms? Join the Cloud Ecosystem Security Team, where you will take ownership of a key subsystem in a greenfield project to build a scalable, high-performance data platform for security data. In this role, you will drive feature development end to end, collaborating with multiple partner teams to align on goals, build consensus, and deliver exceptional results. At Microsoft Security, we are committed to making the world a safer place by developing an end-to-end security cloud that simplifies and strengthens our customers' security postures. With ever-increasing threats, regulatory requirements, and estate complexity, organizations face daunting challenges managing and securing vast amounts of data across on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments.

 

Our team is building a high-scale, exabyte-scale data platform to help enterprises:

Inventory and map their entire digital estate: From devices and users to permissions, data systems, and virtual machines, we help organizations discover and gain visibility into every asset. Integrate and normalize data: By pre-integrating security data from disparate sources and standardizing it, we empower customers to store, retain, and use security logs more efficiently and affordably. Answer critical security and governance questions: From identifying what systems exist and what's in them, to ensuring compliance with legal and corporate policies, we provide customers with insights and control over their security landscape. By leveraging an advanced security graph, built using AI and machine learning algorithms, we enable organizations to detect patterns, uncover threats, and make informed decisions about their digital estate's security posture in real time.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for owning and leading the development of a key subsystem within this platform. You will drive the technical strategy for your area, working with multiple partner teams across product management, security experts, and engineering to align requirements, build consensus, and ensure seamless delivery of complex features. You will mentor engineers, lead technical discussions, and ensure best practices are followed, while ensuring the subsystem meets scalability, security, and performance requirements.

 

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.

 

This Hybrid Position is located at our Microsoft office in Redmond, Washington. US Domestic Relocation support will not be provided, and successful candidates will need to relocate or reside within 50 miles of the field location.