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Work type
On-site
Location
Redmond, WA
Salary
$163,000–$296,400 / yr
Posted
40 days ago
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99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $230k
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This role pays more than 98% of similar roles. Most pay $155,000–$207,350 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $230k versus about $181k for comparable roles.

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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

Microsoft currently has 1103 open roles on FindRole.

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As a Principal Software Engineer - Architect on the User Authentication team within Identity and Network Access at Microsoft Security, you will lead the design and implementation of next-generation authentication systems that balance standardization with flexibility. Your role involves defining secure-by-default and resilient engineering models for a 100+ user auth team, enabling platform capabilities to accelerate consistent shipping, and influencing architectural direction across multiple teams. You will coach Principal Engineers and Tech Leads, drive transformative AI adoption in both engineering systems and product capabilities, and make critical design decisions on system decomposition, multi-tenant architecture, and central resiliency models. The ideal candidate has over 12 years of software engineering leadership experience, a track record of influencing significant system changes, and expertise in running large-scale cloud services with a focus on security and privacy. Experience integrating AI into customer-facing products or core platforms is highly valued.

Skills

Azure Kubernetes CI/CD Python Go JavaScript TypeScript PostgreSQL MongoDB Docker Terraform AWS Git Jenkins Prometheus Grafana AI Machine Learning

What you'll do

  • Define and operationalize secure-by-default and resilient-by-default models for user auth team.
  • Enable platform capabilities that accelerate consistent, compliant shipping of authentication services.
  • Influence architectural direction across multiple teams and services within the organization.
  • Coach Principal Engineers and Tech Leads on transformative workflow adoption of AI in engineering systems.
  • Lead critical design decisions on system decomposition and multi-tenant architecture.
  • Drive central resiliency models for large-scale cloud services.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of Software Engineering leadership experience
  • Proven ability to influence significant system changes and lead distributed teams
  • Experience running large-scale cloud services
  • Strong understanding of security and privacy in authentication solutions
  • Experience integrating AI in customer-facing products or engineering processes
  • Track record of driving measurable engineering process improvements

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