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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WAFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

SEERA (Secure Enclave for Engineers, Researchers & Agents) builds secure, governed environments that enable engineers and security researchers to work productively with sensitive data while maintaining strong access controls, compliance, and auditability. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will provide hands-on technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, secure workspaces, and trusted data access, while helping shape the platform’s evolution toward secure execution of AI-agent workloads.

Responsibilities

  • Advance trusted execution for AI agents, establishing controlled access to sensitive data and tools with built-in identity, policy enforcement, and auditability.
  • Design, implement, and ship cloud services that make secure workspaces and governed data access easier to use, extend, and operate.
  • Champion innovation in Platform-Infra domains, including AI-assisted automation.
  • Mentor and guide researchers and engineers, fostering technical growth and alignment with Microsoft’s security priorities.
  • Investigate critical security issues (root cause, motivation, impact) and elevate findings to influence product and strategy decisions.
  • Design and validate solutions by partnering with engineering teams to translate findings into production systems.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to lay out a vision and a prioritized roadmap of work needed to support the multitude of Microsoft customers.

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.

Skills

Required:securitycloud services
Nice to have:vision and leadership

Benefits

  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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