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Back-End Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jul 23, 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. We are seeking a visionary and technically deep Back-End Principal Software Engineer to join the Azure Foundational Security Services Team to lead the design and development of foundational security services that provide identity, access management, secrets protection and key management services across our cloud platforms. This role is pivotal in shaping the next generation of secure compute and key management systems that underpin trusted workloads at hyperscale.You will drive architecture and implementation of secure identity issuance, scalable secrets protection, access management, and hardware-backed cryptographic services. These systems are critical to enabling secure service-to-service communication, confidential computing, and compliance with the highest security standards.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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. This Hybrid Position is located at our Microsoft office in Redmond, Washington. Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to relocate or reside within 50 miles of the field location.
ResponsibilitiesArchitect and build secure, scalable, and highly available services for identity issuance, secrets protection, and HSM-based cryptographic operations.Lead cross-functional engineering efforts across platform, security, and infrastructure teams.Define and enforce standards for security, availability, and compliance across foundational services.Drive the design and delivery of hardware-backed secrets management and secure compute solutions.Mentor engineers and influence technical direction across teams and projects.Collaborate with product and compliance teams to align infrastructure with security, quality, and AI initiatives.Ensure lifecycle management of machine and service identities with robust security controls. | |