New 
Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 May 11, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity 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.The Datacenter Security Token Services (dSTS) Platform & Security team builds and operates high-reliability authentication and authorization services that power Azure's Foundation and Essential layer services. Our work is central to Azure's cloud infrastructure, enabling secure datacenter buildouts, disaster recovery operations, and compliance with core security 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.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements and solutions. Work across team and organizational boundaries to drive clarity and alignment. Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. Drives, creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Conduct research, stay updated with the latest industry trends, and experiment with cutting-edge technologies to drive innovation. Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate. Effectivecommunication skills and an interest in delivering scalable solutions through a wide ranging team of engineers. | |