At Microsoft, our core mission is empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft Entra sits within our Security, Compliance, Identity and Management Division and is at the heart of the day-to-day technology experience for billions of humans globally, playing a critical part in enabling everyone to achieve more. Our suite of products powers everything from Windows to Office, Azure to Xbox. Microsoft Entra is a dynamic and inclusive team which cares deeply about our customer experience and works to solve extraordinarily complex problems at extreme scale. If that sounds fun, we would love to meet you!
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Responsibilities
Identity Platform seeks a Principal Software Architect to help our team tackle some of our most complex problems – our Platform team, of which you would be a part, is charged to increase availability of mission-critical services, building better software to serve over 1B humans globally. Are you passionate about distributed systems, and how to build and run them at extreme scale? Are you curious, a learner, someone who seeks to be a force multiplier through your contribution?
This opportunity reports to the Partner Director of Engineering for Identity Platform within Entra. You will have a broad role driving architecture and execution of some lynchpin services in Identity, e.g., our API (application programming interface) gateways. These services process millions of requests per second, powering hundreds of billions of authentications per day, and with challenging availability targets (>99.99%). You will have strong opinions, weakly held, about how to ship critical software quickly and safely. This is a hands-on role, you will need to be equally comfortable designing the better mousetrap, providing thoughtful actionable feedback on other engineers’ proposals, balancing better vs. best, and rolling up your sleeves to ship the new mousetrap from whiteboard into production.
Qualifications
Role Requirements
At least 7 years’ relevant experience in software engineering.
At least 4 years’ experience leading technical architecture for one or more complex services.
Highly Valued Skills
Strong record of accomplishment as a hands-on engineer designing and delivering elegant solutions to meet complex design and architectural challenges in a cloud environment.
Deep practical experience with operating high-scale services in production environments. You have hard-earned experience and opinions on what great observability looks like, what safe deployments look like and whether to push code on Fridays.
Proven ability to lead and drive consensus across leadership, team, and organizational boundaries and to deliver outcomes – the scope of this role is company-wide.
Extensive experience influencing executive leadership and executive stakeholders.
Excellent communications skills, comfortable presenting to large audiences and customers.
Experience driving complex outcomes, partnering with teams across multiple time zones and across organizational boundaries – the scope of this role is division-wide.
Prior experience with performance analysis and optimization of web services and software.
Prior experience building services which run on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Prior experience working in the Identity and/or Security domains.
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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