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<strong>Overview<br><br></strong>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.<br><br>The Identity and Access Provisioning team enables customers to govern the lifecycle and access of all identities including employees, agents, non-human and partners through Entra Identity Governance product. The team is looking for an action-oriented <strong>Principal Engineering Manager</strong> who will expand the scope of our governance and provisioning products across human/non-human identities accessing applications, directories and resources in customers' cloud and hybrid environments. The role provides great opportunities to collaborate across Microsoft and a large ecosystem of industry players who develop top business applications to deliver IAM and governance solutions. We live a culture which is customer focused, biased towards action and always learning. We are a diverse team, and we embrace people from all backgrounds, to help us build the best identity products and services in the world.<br><br><em>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.<br><br></em><strong>Responsibilities<br><br></strong>Your core responsibilities include managing a team of engineers in the Identity and Access Provisioning team, responsible for delivering a planet-scaled, business-critical and secure-by-default service that supports Entra Identity provisioning and Governance products. You will collaborate with teams across Identity division, Microsoft and industry to build identity products that work with a large ecosystem of first party and third party business applications. You will build and grow a team of motivated and empowered engineers who aim high, challenge themselves, deliver big and learn at every step of the way.<br><br><strong>Qualifications<br><br></strong><strong>Required Qualifications:<br><br></strong><ul><li>Bachelor'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 equivalent experience.<br><br></li></ul><strong>Other Requirements<br><br></strong><ul><li>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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter<br><br></li></ul><strong>Preferred Qualifications<br><br></strong><ul><li>10+ years of industry experience working on commercial software application or cloud services </li><li>3+ years of experience managing engineering team(s) </li><li>Working experience in cloud services, large scale systems and identity products/services is a plus </li><li>Track record of managing team(s), fostering innovation and delivering results through leadership and collaboration<br><br></li></ul>Software Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600.00 - $296,400.00 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800.00 - $331,200.00 per year.<br><br>Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:<br><br> position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.<br><br>Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <strong>requesting accommodations.</strong>

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