Principal Engineer (Full Stack) - M365 Security Engineering

We are looking to hire a Principal Software Engineer (Full Stack) to join our team!

This Principal Engineer (Full Stack) responsibility would be to balance the role of individual contributor while also helping provide technical direction and mentoring other engineers on the team. We have a full roadmap and some interesting challenges to navigate. This role would be ideal for those who enjoy applying systems thinking and can build cross team partnerships.  Team members become advocates for seamless customer experiences, build scalable, reliable and performance services, iterate rapidly, help drive clarity amid ambiguity and focus on solving the needs of employees around the world. Our culture is inclusive, casual and passionate. Our team celebrates diverse backgrounds, and values passion for serving our customers. Our team has a sense of accountability and provides its members with opportunities for learning and career growth.  If this sounds exciting to you, we would love to hear from you.

This role in M365 Security Engineering at Microsoft have a great opportunity to work on solutions that protect Microsoft services against cyberattacks. Our team consists of engineers with expertise in large-scale software systems, security analysis, big data, and machine learning. We delight in digging in deep to analyse the billions of events and terabytes of data generated each day by all Microsoft products and services (e.g., Azure, M365) services for evidence of suspicious activities. We ensure that critical security components are present throughout the infrastructure powering these services and that these components are kept up to date.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, reliable and performant backend services
• Plan and implement beautiful, crisp, and maintainable user-facing experiences that are accessible to everyone. 
• Plays a key role in shaping the system architecture that provides measurable customer value, along with driving engineering and operational excellence across the product. 
• Provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross-functional, and organizationally critical programs. 
• Drive long-term design thinking for systems and engineering processes, with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets. 
• Partner and work collaboratively with people across Product, Design, and Engineering teams spanning across geographies to deliver complex, large-scale experiences. 
• Ensure appropriate level of instrumentation, observability, alerts and monitoring for the systems.
• Propose and implement robust, scalable, performant, and maintainable solutions that are tested, reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration. 
• Optimize code for best performance and accessibility
• Champions best practices and optimal coding patterns and provides deep expertise on the coding and validation strategy
• Be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem-solving. 
• Mentor and develop engineers across all levels through sharing and learning.
• Use engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle to establish maintainable, reliable, and secure systems.
• Work in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth.
• Learn quickly from your peers, projects, and interactions with customers.
• Provide on call support and monitor the health of services in production as part of DevOps culture.
• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 12+ years of experience in software development and designing distributed systems and front-end applications.
• 6+ years of experience with UI/Web development, including HTML, CSS, and responsive design principles.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud) 
• Experience with front-end technologies and frameworks like Redux/React etc.
• Excellent coding skills, strong understanding in OOPS, design patterns and their application.
• Self-learner with passion for technologies.
• Must know Secure by Design principles.
• Outstanding ability to both work independently and coordinate across geographies.
• Outstanding ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts to a variety of cross-group stakeholders.
• Strong organization skills, a bias for action, and ability to deliver results.
• Proven ability to deal with ambiguity and drive for clarity.
• Excellent ability to work efficiently, prioritize workflow, ramp quickly, and meet demanding deadlines.
• Outstanding communication skills and collaboration capabilities.
• Self-learner with passion for technologies.
• Able to deep dive in complex areas and self-drive.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent knowledge of cloud-computing environments like Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP - Azure preferred.
• Exceptional Front-End skills in designing fluid and native UI.
• Strong software design and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with modern software services engineering practices such as testing in production, live monitoring, data driven engineering.
• Rapid prototyping and iteration skills the next line.
• Experience with web service development and familiar with related technologies.
• Basic automation scripting skills with PowerShell and developing modules.
• Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.
• Experience using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD)
• Rapid prototyping and iteration skills.

Background Check:

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 Cloud background check upon higher/transfer and every 2 years they are after.

Our Culture:

Growth mindset – we practice a learn it all vs a know-it-all attitude. Wins are cheered, failures are celebrated and viewed as learning opportunities.
Candour – we believe in transparency and receiving and providing regular constructive feedback across the hierarchy.
Diverse and Inclusive – every voice matters and is appreciated. This is a safe environment where you can express yourself without fear of retribution.
Leadership oriented – each of us are leaders who strive to create clarity, generate energy, and deliver success. We believe in leading with empathy, trust, and context rather than control.

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.

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