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Principal Software Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time💰 $142,800–$142,800🗓 2026-07-02 → 2026-10-02

Core

Designing and building the Conditional Access Optimization Agent, an AI system that reasons over security policies to recommend and apply hardening changes for Microsoft's identity stack. (via careerplan.io/jobs/1970393556922869-principal-software-engineer-at-microsoft)

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (AI/Security)

Builds

The Conditional Access Optimization Agent and the agentic layer for Identity Security

Domain

Cloud Identity Security / Generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

System design, AI/ML integration, security policy reasoning, C/C++/C#/Java/JavaScript/Python, on-call support, cross-team collaboration

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

None explicitly listed beyond programming languages

Responsibilities

Writing high quality code, designing systems with AI and safety in mind, delivering high quality experiences to customers, performing on call duties, working across teams and products

Seniority

Principal, technical direction & strategy