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. Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That is what inspires us every day to do our best work. **The Identity division** in the Microsoft Security organization delivers world-class authentication services for the Microsoft cloud. Entra ID (Azure AD) is the identity platform for Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365. By using Azure Active Directory, organizations are empowered to offer their employees, partners and customers access to applications, data and resources in a secure and controlled manner. **The Authentication Core team** within Identity division is looking for a **Principal Software Engineering Manager** who can solve large scale problems in the infrastructure authentication service space. This service provides service-to-service authentication for first-party cloud services and is a foundational component of the Microsoft Cloud. We are looking for a leader for one of the **STS teams (Security Token Service)** to deliver the next wave of improvements in scale, performance, and capability in this area. We are a group of supportive team players. We constantly collaborate with other teams across Microsoft to enable new scenarios, and while doing so we are learning and expanding our horizons. We embrace a culture which is customer focused, deliver continuously, and drives engineering excellence. We are a diverse team, and we embrace people from all backgrounds, helping us build the best identity service 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._ 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** Core responsibilities include leading a team of engineers in Authentication Core services: + Responsible for delivering authentication scenarios in service-to-service infrastructure authentication. + Collaborate with teams across the Identity division and Microsoft to improve the security, scalability, performance, and user experience of these authentication services. + Drive impact across Microsoft cloud, as authentication and identity are core to Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365. + Other + Embody our culture and values **Qualifications** **Required/Minimum Qualifications** + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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. + 5+ years of industry experience working on commercial software applications or services + 2+ years of management 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: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: + This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. **Additional or Preferred Qualifications** + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR 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 equivalent experience. + 4+ years people management experience. + Track record of delivering innovation and results, leadership and collaboration Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 26, 2024. \#SHPE24MSFT Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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