Security 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. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate.
The Service-to-Service Authentication Team builds and operates the foundation that secures non-human identity and communication across Microsoft and customer environments. Our services authenticate and authorize billions of transactions every hour, protecting critical Azure infrastructure, Microsoft services, customer workloads, and the next generation of AI-powered agents. As a core component of Microsoft's security and cloud platform, our systems operate at global scale and are essential to the trust, reliability, and resilience of the world's most important digital experiences.
Security threats continue to evolve rapidly, and service identities have become one of the most critical security boundaries in modern computing. As a highly strategic and security-sensitive area of investment, our team is shaping the future of how services, applications, and AI agents establish trust and communicate securely across the Microsoft ecosystem.
We are seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to drive the next phase of our transformation. In this role, you will lead a team of talented engineers, define technical and organizational strategy, improve engineering excellence and operational effectiveness, and partner across Microsoft Security, Entra, and Azure to deliver secure, resilient, and scalable identity solutions. This is an opportunity to influence authentication systems that underpin Microsoft's cloud platform while helping define the future of service identity for the AI era.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We embrace a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Every day, we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Ability 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:
#MSFTSecurity #Security #Identity #Authentication #SDKs
Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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