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 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 Engineer 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 results.

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead and Manage: Oversee the design, implementation, and delivery of a critical subsystem, managing a team of engineers and fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
• Drive Technical Strategy: Develop and drive the technical strategy for your subsystem, working with partner teams to align on goals and technical decisions.
• Feature Development: Guide the end-to-end development of features, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Mentor and Develop Talent: Provide mentorship and leadership to engineers, ensuring technical excellence and adherence to best practices.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize subsystem performance to handle extensive security data, ensuring scalability, availability, and security.
• Continuous Improvement: Promote continuous improvement by adopting new technologies and methodologies to enhance platform capabilities.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with product management, data scientists, and other engineering teams to translate business needs into technical solutions and ensure seamless delivery.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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.
  
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP, or comparable cloud environments, with production ownership and CI/CD pipeline integration.​
• 2 years of experience managing engineering teams.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Leadership Experience: Proven ability to lead complex feature development and manage high-scale subsystems or platform components in mission-critical SaaS products.
• 10+ years of experience in building large-scale, distributed software systems
• Data Processing Frameworks: Knowledge of data processing frameworks such as Spark, Hadoop, or similar technologies. Security Data Management: Experience with security data management, logging, or monitoring solutions.
• Cloud-Native Architecture: Expereince in cloud-native architecture, microservices, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Leadership Skills: Experience driving technical projects across teams and aligning multiple stakeholders.
• Communication Skills: Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to influence and align diverse teams.
• Technical Skills: Programming skills in languages such as C#, Java, or C++.
• Security Experience: Deep understanding of security principles and the challenges associated with securing large-scale systems.
• Distributed Systems: Experience with high-scale distributed systems and data platforms.

Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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 July 29, 2025

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