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Microsoft Corporation PRINCIPAL ENGINEERING MANAGER in Dublin, Ireland
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.
Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.
The Microsoft Entra group serves over a billion active users, powering the Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Account services that are at the core of almost every Microsoft product and platform like Office, Xbox, HoloLens and Azure.
Our engineering team has opportunities for engineers to work across the stack from delivering user-facing experiences to innovations in hyper-scale, geo-distributed, stateful, fault tolerant services.
We are the Core Authentication team responsible for the authentication service serving users and devices everywhere, securing access to your favorite applications and services. We are looking for an experienced software engineer manager with years of technical expertise in building highly scalable and distributed systems to join us to support new and exciting scenarios in the enterprise and customer identity and access management (CIAM) spaces.
This opportunity will allow you to work hands-on on a core service serving billions of users each month, and you will need to draw on your deep technical experience to support your team. You will also have an important role in building and shaping the team's engineering culture, work in a collaborative hybrid work environment, and embrace a live site-first mentality, which is required to run critical services at hyper-scale. You’ll join a team of amazing and passionate software engineers and managers, who will help you to learn and grow every day.
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.
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership for the team. You'll tap into your own extensive technical experience to support the team in developing rock solid technical designs as well as contributing, coaching, and reviewing technical designs from across Microsoft.
Partner with key stakeholders to drive improvements and change across multiple teams across multiple geographies in the Microsoft Entra organization.
Support the team in designing and developing large scale distributed software services and solutions.
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.
Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with other leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline
Extensive technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
People management experience.
Other Requirements:
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: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .