Principal Software Engineer

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$137,600 - $294,000
Security
Principal Software Engineer
Hybrid
5,000+ Employees
6+ years of experience
AI · Cybersecurity · Enterprise SaaS

Description For Principal Software Engineer

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 M365 product portfolio makes up some of the most widely used and trusted productivity applications and services in the world, and is driving AI value through CoPilots. M365 Security is a Growth Mindset team. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join us in taking in new information from diverse sources like internal service partners, bug bounty reports, penetration tests, and external customer feedback to learn more about improving how we can keep our customer's data secure.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will: • Drive understanding and decision making around Security Incidents and the Post Incident Review (PIR) Process • Drive Secure Engineering policies, practices, and tooling across user-facing services at Microsoft, including AI platforms and implementations • Help guide Engineering Teams across Microsoft on security best practices • Collaborate with teams across Microsoft to help define the state of the art for detection, prevention, and elimination of security risks • Identify emerging security problems that need additional focus, and contribute to building solutions to solve them, often utilizing AI • Mentor others inside and outside of Microsoft on building secure platforms and systems • Plan and manage an expanding portfolio of security and privacy programs and track associated metrics • Create and present plans to management for driving security and privacy objectives across M365 services • Represent Microsoft in various customer briefings and security conferences

Join us in making the world a safer place through innovative security solutions!

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Responsibilities For Principal Software Engineer

  • Drive understanding and decision making around Security Incidents and the Post Incident Review (PIR) Process
  • Drive Secure Engineering policies, practices, and tooling across user-facing services at Microsoft, including AI platforms and implementations
  • Help guide Engineering Teams across Microsoft on security best practices
  • Collaborate with teams across Microsoft to help define the state of the art for detection, prevention, and elimination of security risks
  • Identify emerging security problems that need additional focus, and contribute to building solutions to solve them, often utilizing AI
  • Mentor others inside and outside of Microsoft on building secure platforms and systems
  • Plan and manage an expanding portfolio of security and privacy programs and track associated metrics
  • Create and present plans to management for driving security and privacy objectives across M365 services
  • Represent Microsoft in various customer briefings and security conferences

Requirements For Principal Software Engineer

Java
JavaScript
Python
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
  • 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • 4+ years of experience in the software development lifecycle
  • Experience in designing or developing software and services, large scale computing, modeling, cyber security and anomaly detection
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements

Benefits For Principal Software Engineer

Medical Insurance
Education Budget
Parental Leave
  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Opportunities to network and connect

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