Microsoft · 15 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their Hardware Security team. The role involves leading the design, development, and delivery of security firmware and software solutions, while also influencing the technology roadmap and mentoring team members.
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Responsibilities
Lead the team to design, develop and deliver security firmware and software solutions that achieve security, reliability, scalability, performance, and efficiency for Microsoft products and services
Representing Microsoft in security industry standard organization such as Trusted Computing Group for technology specifications discussion and modifications
Bring other industry standards into our product and technology planning
Leveraging emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence to improve individual and team effectiveness
Define project engineering plan, execute to deliver with focus on accountability, learning and quality
Mentor and grow the team members’ engineering culture and careers
Guide the team to develop excellent engineering practices and ensure the product is compliant with security, privacy, accessibility and other compliance requirements
Evaluate and assess emerging technologies in the hardware security and related area and partner with product management, customers and other Microsoft teams and other companies to define requirements, develop a roadmap and scope project milestones
Focus on diversity and inclusiveness to enable creative solutions to challenging problems
Qualification
Required
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++, Rust, or Python OR equivalent experience
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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Preferred
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust, or Python
10+ years of engineering experience in IT industry
Proven track record for creating and owning challenging technical areas in complicated systems, security related area is highly desirable
Proven track record for collaboration between many teams and delivering results
Experience in standard groups such as TCG
Experience in developing & creating platforms
Experience in using latest AI technology
Experience in creating and maintaining open source projects
Experience in Rust programming language and tool chain
Experience with computer security and cryptography
Experience with the hardware/firmware/driver development
Experience with Windows operating system architecture
Company
Microsoft
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