Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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2 days ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own security architecture and security design principles across Provisioning, Groups, and Manageability.
  • Review major architectural changes, APIs, and modernization initiatives for security risks.
  • Define reusable security patterns, guardrails, and least-privilege approaches.
  • Identify systemic risks across components and drive architectural solutions.
  • Lead threat modeling for major features and architectural changes.
  • Partner across engineering, identity, authentication/authorization, and security organizations.
  • Help design and build AI agents for compliance, evidence collection, secret rotation, configuration enforcement, and work-item triage.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Coding experience in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Preferred: bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of technical engineering experience with coding.
  • Experience designing and securing large-scale distributed or cloud services.
  • Deep understanding of identity, authentication, and authorization.
  • Understanding of least privilege, defense in depth, trust boundaries, and secure-by-design principles.
  • Experience with service-to-service authentication and authorization, application identities, certificates, credentials, secrets, threat modeling, and architecture security reviews.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.

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About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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