FULL_TIME
10+
PRINCIPAL ENG ARCHITECT
11/29/2025
You will work closely with other security engineering disciplines to plan, architect, design, implement and validate security products and features. You will be responsible for all aspects of a feature area including design, implementation, performance and quality.
Working Hours
40 hours/week
Company Size
10,001+ employees
Language
English
Visa Sponsorship
No
About The Company
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters.
Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
About the Role
We are looking for fast learning, highly-motivated, creative and analytical software engineers. In this position you will work closely with other security engineering disciplines to plan, architect, design, implement and validate, security products and features. In addition to strong technical skills, you should have a passion for innovation and software quality. You will need to be comfortable with fast paced security industry by courageously treading the unexplored arenas and thinking ahead of the highly sophisticated attackers.You will be responsible to perform investigations and investments in complex areas; designing and delivering features end to end - including system architecture, code, deployment, scale, performance and quality, from conception to delivery. - Design and implement scalable, reliable, maintainable services - Demonstrate strategic understanding of the timing and rationale for design choices, within the scope of work. - Consistently contribute key ideas to the product or service design and vision that meets the customer's needs - Drive design reviews across the team and apply expertise in available technologies - Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code - Have a sense of pride, commitment, and personal accountability for the service quality, completeness and resulting user experience for the life of the product or service - Work closely with geographically distributed team, including Product Managers and developers, to drive key improvements in backend Engineering System. We are looking for someone who shares our passion for building great software for enterprises. You will work in a forward-looking product as part of an agile, collaborative, and cross-discipline team. As a Principal SWE, you will responsible for all aspects of a feature area including design, implementation, performance and quality. You will take such feature areas from ideation to successful global roll out. You will act as a code and design reviewer and mentors other engineers. You must be self-driven, proactive, and results-oriented. Expertise/Experience - Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and common Design Patterns - 10+ years of relevant software development experience and proficient in C# (Java or C++) - Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries. - Experience in DevOps to maintain live services andor application frameworks. - Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable. - Analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design. - Passion for building highly scalable, highly reliable services. - Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes. - Collaborating with technical partners to deliver end-to-end solutions - Experience with multithreading and asynchronous processing - Experience with CI/CD pipeline using agile practices - Ability to quickly ramp up on multiple technology areas Interpersonal skills - Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges - Cultural sensitivity and a proven ability to work with teams and partners across multiple geographies. - A sense of personal ownership is required, together with the ability to deliver to tight deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations - Self-motivated and organized to deliver results Essential qualifications - BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience. 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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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. This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. *
Key Skills
Object-Oriented ProgrammingDesign PatternsC#JavaC++DevOpsCloudAzureAnalytical SkillsAgileMultithreadingAsynchronous ProcessingCI/CDSoftware DesignCollaborationCommunication
Categories
TechnologySoftwareEngineeringSecurity & Safety
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