Principal Software Engineer - Agent Team - Microsoft Identity

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. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-entra-azure-ad-blog/microsoft-entra-expands-into-security-service-edge-with-two-new/ba-p/3847829 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.

In this role, you will:

Collaborate closely with multiple teams across Microsoft to deliver key customer solutions and the technologies that support them.

Build features end-to-end — from our endpoint installed on user machines across multiple platforms, all the way to Cloud Services.

Lead the 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 by applying industry-leading best practices.

Lead the definition of requirements, KPIs, priorities, and the planning of engineering deliverables.

Demonstrate proven team-building experience, including mentoring and growing team members.

Qualifications

BSc./MSc. in Computer Science or equivalent

You have at least 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

Preferred Qualification

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

Excellent teammate skills, effectiveness both in independent and collaborative work

Autodidactic abilities to ramp up quickly on new technologies

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.