Principal Software Engineering Manager

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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.

The CISO Org is Microsoft’s central cybersecurity authority, accountable for managing and prioritizing cybersecurity risk across the company. The Microsoft Red Team is responsible for finding and demonstrating risk to proactively identify and mitigate vulnerabilities. The Microsoft Red Team Intelligence Team is a specialized unit within the broader Red Team that focuses on generating actionable intelligence to support adversarial risk analysis. We provide data and insight to discover, assess, and track potential security and privacy risks exploitable by malicious actors, including Microsoft Red Team breach operators.

As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of software engineers to build and maintain our internal security graph extract, transform, load (ETL) pipelines and infrastructure. You will help the team solve complex infrastructure and data problems, drive adoption of good engineering practices, and maintain a high quality and security bar for our product. You will collaborate across many partners to enable them to share and analyze data necessary to strengthen Microsoft’s defenses in our rapidly evolving threat landscape.

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.

Required/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
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years people management experience
  
  • OR similar experience managing projects.

• 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.

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 August 1 2025

- Foster employee growth and development through thoughtful guidance, effective project execution, and clear performance management. Empower success by leading with care, coaching with intention, and setting a strong example.
-Provide oversight and support to team members to ensure delivery of clean, extensible, and maintainable code. Ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility. Champion best practices and coding standards while offering deep expertise in development and validation strategies.
- Lead collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to define user requirements across teams. Guide the integration of continuous feedback loops that assess customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics to inform and improve outcomes.
-Lead identification of other teams and technologies that will be leveraged, how they will interact, and when one's system may provide support to others.
- Participate in on-call rotations accountable for the availability and reliability of service operations