Principal Software Engineer

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer Company: Microsoft Job Category: Python Developer Roles & Responsibilities: We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who will provide end\-to\-end security leadership across these areas. The role will work closely with engineering teams to ensure that new features, modernization investments, APIs, administrative operations, and service\-to\-service interactions are secure by design. The role will combine deep expertise in identity, authentication and authorization, privileged operations, API security, distributed systems, and threat modeling with the ability to influence architecture across multiple teams. Responsibilities * Own the security architecture and security design principles across the three IDC areas spanning across authentication, authorization, privilege operations, least privilege access to directory resources, isolation, threat modelling. * Review major architectural changes, APIs and modernization initiatives for security risks. * Define reusable security patterns and guardrails that teams can adopt rather than solving security independently in each feature. * Identify systemic security risks that span multiple components and drive architectural solutions. * Ensure security is incorporated early in engineering design rather than addressed primarily through post\-design reviews. * Lead threat modelling for major features and architectural changes. Identify trust boundaries, attack surfaces and potential privilege\-escalation paths. * Work across Provisioning, Groups and Manageability rather than belonging to the security implementation of one component. Partner with identity, authentication/authorization and security organizations. * Help design and build AI agents for SFI workflows such as finding and fixing compliance issues, collecting evidence, inventorying and rotating secrets, enforcing configuration rules, and triaging work items etc. Work Location: Telangana, India Availability: Full time

Qualifications Required/Minimum Qualifications: * Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6\+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C\+\+, C\#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. + OR equivalent experience. Additional or preferred qualifications Preferred Qualifications: * Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field AND 10\+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C\+\+, C\#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. * Solid experience designing and securing large\-scale distributed/cloud services. * Deep understanding of identity, authentication and authorization. * Solid understanding of least privilege, defense in depth, trust boundaries and secure\-by\-design principles. * Experience designing or reviewing service\-to\-service authentication and authorization. * Experience with application/service identities, certificates, credentials and secrets. * Experience conducting threat modeling and architecture security reviews. Key Skills: Python Salary: Not disclosed