The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.
We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Principal Architect to join our Cyber Defense Engineering organization. This role is a senior individual contributor position focused on designing and evolving architectural frameworks and solutions that support our mission-critical cybersecurity capabilities. You will work across domains such as data platform engineering, multi-tenant security monitoring, security remediation, and incident response.
Cyber Defense Engineering (CDE) manages services which enable defense operations for Microsoft. Our Remit covers engineering for threat hunting, containment, investigations and security incident operations. We are a group of engineers and product managers partnering deeply with analysts to evolve our current suite of tools to operate at the speed and scale of internal threats.
As a Principal Software Architect, you will partner with engineering, operations, and product teams to define scalable, secure, and resilient architectures. You will also play a key role in shaping the future of our cyber defense capabilities by driving architectural decisions, evaluating emerging technologies, and ensuring alignment with compliance and operational requirements. In addition, you will lead the evolution of development practices across teams, introducing and championing modern methodologies and tools to enhance code quality, streamline deployment processes, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. Your expertise will help ensure that our systems are not only robust and scalable, but also consistently meet the highest standards for security and reliability.
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.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.