Principal, Software Engineering Manager

The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

We are seeking a technically proficient Principal Software Engineering Manager to work with a high-impact team in CISO Security Engineering. With the future of security in development, CISO Security Engineering is looking for a Principal, Software Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team to build new services and experiences that will extend our portfolio solutions for protecting Microsoft’s products and customers.

As a Principal Software Engineering Manager on our team, you will be responsible for architecting and driving new investments to solve hard problems, defining architecture, partnering across product and engineering teams, and ensuring high code quality, availability, scalability, and security of our services.

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

• Improve application security maturity at scale by designing, implementing, and building security solutions.
• Partner with product managers and security leaders to ensure security maturity work is being prioritized and addressed across Microsoft products and services.
• Building prototypes and proof-of-concept code, working alongside the engineering teams to provide advice on secure design and implementation
• Providing design guidance and security reviews to engineering teams and improving security maturity.
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined, modularized, secure, reliable, testable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable.
• Solve significant technological challenges impacting the team and our customers.
• Partner and collaborate with peer engineers and customers to deliver impact on our products. Work closely with our internal/external partners to support the team’s mission.
• Lead technical investigations and prototype in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Participate and provide high quality feedback in design reviews, code reviews and other team activities.
• Influence key decisions and create collaborative agreements about sequencing work while maintaining good relationships across teams.
• Manage people and drive clarity in solving complex technical and security challenges, making sound decisions in fast-paced, ambiguous environments by evaluating options and determining effective resolutions. Lead by modeling Microsoft’s values, coaching teams toward clear outcomes, and caring deeply about individual growth—empowering others through clarity, accountability, and support.
• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Minimum 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
• 6+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices
• 3+ years of experience building scalable, efficient, and reliable cloud services.
• 4+ years of people management experience.
• OR equivalent experience.

Additional Qualifications:

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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
• Experience Optimizing automation, reliability, and monitoring of Livesite.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.

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 September 24, 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.

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