New 
Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Aug 14, 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 a 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 Microsoft Purview team's mission is to build cloud solutions that support premium features such as security, compliance, data governance, data loss prevention, and more, seamlessly integrating these services for Office 365 and Windows clients. We are dedicated to transforming how businesses leverage artificial intelligence by creating global-scale services that transport, store, secure, and manage the most sensitive data on the planet. Our services are built on Azure and other cloud platforms. As we continue to grow rapidly, we are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help us deliver best-in-class data protection for Microsoft customers. Our team operates in an agile development environment, continuously gathering and analyzing data to counter evolving threats. Our mission is to protect customers with truly innovative proactive measures, advise them on emerging trends, and engage in valuable partnerships. You will work closely with other engineering teams to ensure our services and systems are highly stable, performant, and meet the expectations of both internal and external customers. We are looking for people with experiences working with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, ability to design componentscarefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability. 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.
ResponsibilitiesLeads efforts and discussions for the architecture of aspects of products/solutions. Independently creates and mentors others for a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring the quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests. Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. Creates and applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices. Holds accountability for the impact of build deployments on both users and other services. Leads efforts to collect, classify, and analyze complex data and analyses on a range of metrics. Leads identification of internal tools and creation of new tools that will be useful for creating the product, determining if methods are still applicable for the current solution. Demonstrates and maintains an up-to-date understanding of both global and local regulations for technologies and system applications to ensure regulations are followed and met. Escalates situations internally to resolve complex blockers.Embody our culture and values | |