Principal Software Engineer - Agent Team - Microsoft Identity
Microsoft
Overview:
The Global Secure Access (GSA) team is at the forefront of redefining secure connectivity in the modern enterprise. As part of Microsoft’s Entra Suite, GSA delivers a unified, identity-centric Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform that enables secure, seamless access to both private and internet-facing applications—whether users are in the office or working remotely.
Our mission is to build the world’s first identity-optimized SASE platform, integrating Zero Trust principles with deep observability, policy enforcement, and AI-driven insights. We empower organizations to protect their digital estate with precision, agility, and intelligence.
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Our culture:
We are an agile team of technical engineers. Customer obsession is rooted deep in every decision we take. We move fast, allergic to over thinking and fail fast. We believe in building solutions the right way and with a “do what it takes” attitude. We are a team, a family, that will always succeed only as one team where all voices are heard, and all opinions are welcomed.
Responsibilities
This is a broad cross-team role with high visibility. You will collaborate closely with multiple teams across Microsoft to deliver key customer solutions and the technology to support them. Build features end to end - from our endpoint installed on the user machine across multiple platforms to Cloud Services.
- Lead end to end design, implementation and delivery of the future architecture for highly scalable, durable, low latency systems.
- Build an effective and agile development organization using industry leading best practices.
- Lead the definition of requirements, KPIs, priorities and planning of engineering deliverables.
- Proven team building experience as well as mentoring and growing team members.
Qualifications
Qualifications
BSc./MSc. in Computer Science or equivalent - must
12+ years of experience in implementation of object-oriented software in C++
Strong hands-on background in Windows internal, kernel and drivers development
Hands-on experience in developing low level networking, facing performance and latency challenges
Strong debugging skills.
Familiarity in areas of multi-threading and async programming.
Excellent teammate skills, effectiveness both in independent and collaborative work
Autodidactic abilities to ramp up quickly on new technologies.
We highly value the following skills:
Expertise in design, building and operating large scale distributed systems
Technical leadership, experience in high performing, agile teams
Proven skills to collaborate cross-group and work effectively within the team
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.