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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.

Are you an accomplished engineer with a proven track record in leading high-scale engineering teams and tackling critical security challenges in today’s digital world? Microsoft Security is seeking a dynamic Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead a key subsystem in a groundbreaking project to develop a scalable, high-performance data platform for security data. In this role, you will drive the technical strategy and feature development end-to-end, managing a talented team of engineers while collaborating with multiple partner teams to achieve exceptional results. Within Microsoft Security Platform , our mission is to create a safer digital world by developing an end-to-end security cloud that simplifies and strengthens our customers' security postures. In an era of increasing threats, regulatory demands, and complex digital estates, organizations need robust solutions to manage and secure vast amounts of data across on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments. We are building an exabyte-scale data platform to help enterprises: Inventory and map their entire digital estate: From devices and users to permissions, data systems, and virtual machines, we enable organizations to discover and gain visibility into every asset. Integrate and normalize data: By pre-integrating security data from various sources and standardizing it, we empower customers to manage security logs more efficiently and affordably. Answer critical security and governance questions: We provide insights and control over security landscapes, leveraging advanced AI and machine learning algorithms to detect patterns, uncover threats, and make informed decisions in real-time. As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, you will lead the design, development, and delivery of a critical subsystem within this high-scale data platform. You will manage and mentor a team of engineers, drive technical strategy, and work closely with product management, security experts, and other engineering teams to ensure alignment of requirements and successful delivery. Your role will encompass both technical and managerial responsibilities, ensuring your team's work meets the highest standards of scalability, security, and performance.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

Qualifications

Required 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.

• 8+ years of experience in building large-scale, distributed software systems, with at least 2 years of experience managing high-scale engineering teams.

• 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.

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.

• 10+ years of experience in building large-scale, distributed software systems

• 4+ years people management experience.

• Proven leadership in driving technical projects and aligning stakeholders.

• Strong problem-solving and communication skills to influence diverse teams.

• Knowledge of data processing frameworks like Spark or Hadoop.

• Experience in security data management, logging, or monitoring solutions.

• Expertise in cloud-native architecture, microservices, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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