Principal Software Engineering 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.

The M365 Security Protect Team is dedicated to securing the world's most extensive productivity applications, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams (M365). We provide cutting-edge protection solutions focused on access control, engineering, DevOps, and data analytics to identify threats and safeguard our M365 services, which are critical targets in the cybersecurity landscape.

We are looking for a passionate Principal Software Engineering Manager to join our M365 Security Protect engineering team. In this role, you will develop and maintain world-class, scalable, and reliable cloud services that are built to continually enhance and support the security posture of M365, while also creating innovative solutions to help our products meet security requirements seamlessly. You'll also be able to leverage AI and build Copilot technologies to stay ahead of attackers, enhancing our ability to innovate and protect.

In this group, you will help us build and architect new services and experiences that will extend our portfolio of world-class solutions for protecting M365. You will be responsible for leading, growing and mentoring a team of creative and passionate software engineers building high quality security cloud services in Azure. You will be investing your time into solving hard security problems, defining architecture, partnering, and ensuring high code quality, availability, scalability, and security of our services. You will be instrumental in creating a positive and productive engineering culture and cultivating this team to build best-in-class solutions with direct impact on protecting our M365 customers.

As part of the Microsoft Security organization, you will have a direct impact in contributing to 'Security above all else' as part of the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI), driven by our mission to protect customer data and privacy in the world's largest productivity suite. You'll work directly on advanced technologies, including access control, secrets management, data analysis, DevOps, and engineering processes.

Join us in our mission to build the best security-first culture in the world, leading the way in protecting our M365 services with cutting-edge security solutions!

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.

This Hybrid Position is located at our Microsoft office in Redmond, Washington. US Domestic Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to relocate or reside within 50 miles of the field location. 

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
• 3+ years of people management experience
• 2+ years of industry experience building, designing, managing and delivering highly available, large-scale: cloud services OR distributed systems / services on a cloud platform

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 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.

• Experience Optimizing automation, reliability, and monitoring of Livesite.
• Experience working in the Cybersecurity domain. 

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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 3 2025.

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Manage, support, and grow an inclusive and diverse team with an amazing engineering and collaborative culture.
• Analyze complex cloud security problems, identify, and design solutions, and make high-impact improvements in close collaboration with other engineers across the C+AI division and throughout Microsoft. 
• Develop large-scale integrated services with enterprise-class quality and utilize your design, customer obsession, and communication skills to bring amazing experiences for all users.
• Build and innovate shift-left security solutions and services powering the future of secure clouds and integrate it with existing Azure services.
• Solve significant technological challenges impacting the team and our customers.
• Partner and collaborate with peer engineers and customers to deliver impact on our products.
• Utilize proficient communication skills coupled with sound business judgement to drive success across large number of stakeholders
• Proficient cross-division collaboration skills.
• Participate and provide high quality feedback in design reviews, code reviews and other team activities.
• Drive technical investigations and prototyping in a fast-paced startup environment
• Embody our culture and values