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 Security, Data and Governance (SDG) team in the CISO organization has a mission to enable Microsoft to be digitally secure, through effective Security Governance and Data Intelligence. The SDG Engineering builds and manages services that manage and automate processes and delivers data solutions to evaluate the state of security at Microsoft. If you are a passionate engineering leader that wants to enable a more secure Microsoft, this is the right place for you. We are looking for a passionate and self-driven Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers, work with product management, business operations and partner engineering teams to influence, develop and deliver scalable services as part of a larger governance ecosystem.  

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
• 2+ working experience building scalable, reliable, distributed systems. 
• Demonstrated track record of using analytical skills and an ability to abstract concepts and think in terms of OO design. 
• Experience with building and retaining software engineering talents, coaching and mentoring for team members' career growth, and fostering supportive, respectful, and inclusive team cultures. 

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.

Required/Minimum 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. 

• 5+ years of working experience in large scale system architecting, design, development, testing, and release, including but not limited to web applications, microservices in layers, database design, API design, performance tuning, telemetry design and analysis. 

• 2+ years of experience working in Cybersecurity. 

• 3+ years of working experience in cloud-based services (Azure or AWS). 

• 3+ years of working experience in modern web framework such as Angular, React, or Vue. 

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, GIT, Build and Release(CI/CD) automation. 

• Solid design skills and hands-on experience with modern software system design, principles, architectural styles, and usage trade-offs. 

• Experience of leading big initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations and leveraging deep domain expertise to influence product roadmap. 

• Solid learning, problem-solving and collaboration skills. 

• Solid verbal and written communication skills. 

Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

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 November 22, 2024.

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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• Leads and manages a team of full stack Software Engineers, fostering an inclusive, collaborative and high-impact team culture. 

• Oversee the design, development, and implementation of security data management systems and automation tools. 

• Drive the creation of scalable processes that enhance the security posture of Microsoft and reduce friction for our engineering community. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with organizational security goals and customer needs. 

• Partners with product management teams, leverages subject-matter expertise and drives project development and delivery plans; manages team sprint planning, scrums, and retrospectives to ensure timely deliveries of team commitments. 

• Coaches and leads the team by example to create and maintain extensible, reliable, reusable, high-performance, and secure code. 

• Promotes and leads by example on growth mindset, proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of services, while also driving consistency in operations at scale. 

• Mentors and develops team members, provides guidance and opportunities for career growth and professional development. 

• Other

  • Embody our Culture and Values