Principal Software Engineer Manager

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.

Are you a seasoned engineering leader with a strong background in managing high-scale engineering teams and solving critical security challenges?

At Microsoft Security Platform, we aim to create a safer digital environment by building a comprehensive security cloud that enhances and simplifies our customers’ security postures. In a world of increasing threats, regulatory requirements, and complex digital infrastructures, organizations require advanced solutions to protect extensive data across on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments. To support this, we’re developing an exabyte-scale data platform that enables enterprises to:

• Map their digital environment: Providing visibility across all assets—devices, users, permissions, data systems, and virtual machines—allowing organizations to inventory their digital estates.
• Integrate and standardize security data: By pre-integrating and normalizing data from multiple sources, we make managing security logs efficient and cost-effective.
• Answer critical security and compliance questions: Leveraging advanced AI and machine learning, our platform empowers customers to identify patterns, detect threats, and make informed security decisions in real-time.

Microsoft Security is searching for a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead the development of a core subsystem within this cutting-edge security data platform. In this role, you’ll be responsible for shaping technical strategy and guiding feature development, overseeing a high-caliber engineering team, and collaborating closely with product management, security experts, and other engineering groups. You’ll play a key role in designing, building, and delivering a robust subsystem that meets the highest standards of performance, security, and scalability. As both a technical and people leader, you will drive innovation while ensuring alignment across teams for a successful product launch.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.
• 6+ years of experience in building large-scale, distributed software systems
• 2+ years of experience managing high-scale engineering teams
• Expertise in cloud-native architecture, microservices, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex feature development from concept to production, including collaborating with multiple partner teams and driving consensus.

Other Requirements

• 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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  • OR 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 equivalent experience.

• 4+ years people management experience

• 8+ years of experience in building large-scale, distributed software systems
• Experience to lead complex feature development and manage high-scale subsystems or platform components in mission-critical SaaS products.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Knowledge of data processing frameworks such as Spark, Hadoop, or similar technologies.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of a critical subsystem, managing a team of engineers and fostering collaboration.
• Develop and drive the technical strategy, aligning goals and decisions with partner teams.
• Oversee the full feature development process, from requirements gathering to deployment. Mentor and guide engineers, ensuring technical excellence and best practices.
• Optimize subsystem performance to ensure scalability, availability, and security.
• Drive improvements by adopting new technologies to enhance platform capabilities.  Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn business needs into technical solutions and ensure smooth delivery.
• Other
  • Embody our culture and values