At Microsoft, our core mission is empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft Entra sits within our Security, Compliance, Identity and Management Division and is at the heart of the day-to-day technology experience for billions of humans globally, playing a critical part in enabling everyone to achieve more. Our suite of products powers everything from Windows to Office, Azure to Xbox. Microsoft Entra is a dynamic and inclusive team which cares deeply about our customer experience and works to solve extraordinarily complex problems at extreme scale. If that sounds fun, we would love to meet you! 

Identity Platform seeks a Principal Engineering Manager to help our team tackle some of our most complex problems – our Platform team, of which you would be a part, is charged to increase availability of mission-critical services, building better software to serve over 1B humans globally. Are you passionate about distributed systems, and how to build and run them at extreme scale? Are you curious, a learner, someone who seeks to be a force multiplier through your contribution?

As an Engineering Manager within Identity Platform, you will lead engineers working on key components enabling Microsoft Entra to deliver industry-leading products that delight customers. Our Entra services usually process millions of requests per second, reliably powering hundreds of billions of authentications per day, and they must net challenging availability targets (>99.99%). You must mix strategy and tactics: creating clarity on where services need to be in 2-3 years' time, build and grow the right team to deliver, and dive deep into the details of what we are building.

Responsibilities

Requirements

• Mid to Senior level experience in Software Engineering.

• Relevant experience leading a team of Software Engineers.

Highly Valued Skills

• Experience in your career history as a hands-on engineer working with distributed systems.

• Deep practical experience operating high-scale services in production environments.Opinions on what great observability looks like, what safe deployments look like and how to troubleshoot and diagnose high-scale systems effectively.

• Examples of developing and managing requirements and making data-driven decisions. Experience in trade-off scenarios, prior ownership of a roadmap, and setting goals.

• Proven ability to lead and drive consensus on complex topics across leadership, team, and organizational boundaries and to deliver outcomes – the scope of this role is division-wide.

• Experience influencing executive leadership and executive stakeholders.

• Excellent communications skills, comfortable presenting to large audiences and customers.

• Prior experience with performance analysis and optimization of web services and software.

• Prior experience building services which run on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

• Prior experience working in the Identity and/or Security domains.

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

Qualifications

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) .