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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. 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 Application Identities Platform Team is part of the Microsoft Entra organization (formerly called Azure Active Directory), which provides the Identity and access management platform for Microsoft 365, Azure, and many software companies to help them create cloud services that are resilient, scalable, and secure. Our team helps developers create identities for their applications that allows them to access resources securely, and at the same time providing administrators and end users with tools and features that help them make informed and safe decisions when they need to share their data with applications.

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.

Responsibilities

Our team is focusing on enhancing our Application Identities platform in dimensions such as ease of management, developer experience, permission model and large-scale adoption. We are looking for a Principal Engineer Manager that can help us with the challenging task of delivering new capabilities and enhancing existing ones in this highly complex area.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage, coach and mentor engineers, build a high-performing engineering team.

• Develop and maintain a wide and deep knowledge of our platform and the space, recognize problems, Identity opportunities, design solutions.

• Work closely with customers and partners to understand their requirements and scenarios, and effectively lead towards delivering the necessary solutions.

• Define a direction for your team to deliver such solutions and adjust and change course as needed when facing challenges.

• Collaborate with other engineers, program managers, and designers across the Entra organization and beyond to deliver end-to-end experiences that delight our customers and users.

Qualifications

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.

• Senior level software engineering experience

• Relevant experience in managing software engineers as well as developing highly effective engineering teams.

• Experience in architecting and designing complex software systems or services.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, problem-solving skills, and ability to drive changes across multiple organizations.

• Experience of developing and managing requirements, resources, schedules and making data-driven decisions.

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Experience in your career history as a hands-on engineer working with distributed systems.

• Deep practical experience operating high-scale services in production environments.

• Prior experience working in the Identity and/or Security domains.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .