Principal Software Engineer - Azure Active Directory

Company: Microsoft Corporation
Location: Alpharetta
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

**This position is open to remote work anywhere in the USA.**The Identity Provisioning group in Azure Active Directory is growing, and we are looking for a software engineer to join our leadership team. Our group makes identity data available everywhere it needs to be. We are a large organization that owns many products critical to our customers' success. Our group needs a software engineer to influence the planning, strategy, technical direction, and setting standards for our group. As an engineer you will tackle our most complex, persistent, and open-ended problems. You'll be a role model to the engineers on the team and will coaching them to drive positive change throughout the team. This role is hands-on with you dividing your time between coding, design, and architecture guided by where you'll have the most impact. And you'll leave our systems easier to understand, enhance, and operate.You'll be part of the Microsoft Identity organization that builds and manages Microsoft's online identity providers for all of Microsoft's online services and platforms like Azure, Office, Xbox, and HoloLens.Our culture promotes diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion and is clearly reflected in all the things we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us - it is the foundation of what we do. Our team has a keen sense of accountability and provides its members with many opportunities for learning and career growth.We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire and grow within our organization, and we encourage you to apply to learn more!\#IdentityJobs**Responsibilities**+ Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions+ Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews+ System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions+ Develop "best-in-class" engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.+ Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas+ Considers testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understands when code is ready to be shared and delivered+ Exposes test coverage issues, organizes and implements integration tests, and resolves problem areas+ Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users+ Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach+ Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability and monitoring for Live Site+ Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.+ Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.+ Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site.**Qualifications****Required Qualifications:**+ At least 8+ years of professional software development and design experience, using one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#, Python, JavaScript+ 2+ years experience developing high scale, distributed systems on a cloud platform+ Experience in Architecting solutions for complex distributed problems+ Experience in mentoring and coaching other Software Engineers**Preferred Qualifications:**+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Math, Engineering or related field, or completion of a Code/Developer academy programAbility to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest) .Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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