Principal Security 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.

Do you want lead a team finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities that impact hundreds of millions of users? Join the Microsoft Red Team where you will lead a team emulating real-world attacks against Microsoft. We help ensure Microsoft is ready to face and respond to even the most determined adversaries by exploring new ways to find and prevent security weaknesses.

We are looking for a Principal Security Engineering Manager to lead a team of red teamers experienced in identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities in all layers of the services including application, cloud, network, and operational security domains. You will also collaborate across Microsoft with developers and security personnel from multiple teams. By adopting the tactics, techniques, and procedures of potential attackers, you will provide critical insights that empower our security teams to strengthen defenses and protect against the evolving landscape of digital threats.

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 qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years experience in security or related field
  • OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in security or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) people management.

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 Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Penetration Testing 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 23, 2025.

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• Manage and retain direct reports (red teamers) that deliver results that measurably improve the security of Microsoft Services
• Organize and Execute Red Team operations using real world adversarial tactics and techniques to validate a production service's ability to detect, investigate, and respond
• Advocate for security change across the company through building partnerships and clearly communicating impact of risks
• Analyze a wide array of data sources to identify potential security weaknesses and breach points within Microsoft’s infrastructure
• Develop tools and techniques to scale and accelerate adversarial emulation and vulnerability discovery
• Collaborate with Blue Teams to improve readiness and produce solutions for defenders and customers
• Analyze simulated adversary tactics and communications, enriching our defensive tactics and threat intelligence
• Successfully operate in uncertain and novel environments, and identify unknown risk areas
• Evaluate and use Artificial Intelligence solutions to problems that adversaries (like red teams) face

Embody our culture and values