Overview
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. Entra Core Services seeks a Principal Engineering Manager to help our team tackle some of our most complex problems - our team, of which you would be a part, is charged to increase availability of mission-critical services, building K8S based runtime platform 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? 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
As a Principal 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, setting availability targets (>99.99%). You bring a mix of strategy and tactics: creating clarity on where services need to be in 2-3 years' time, building and growing the right team to deliver, and diving deep into the details of what we are building.