Principal Engineering Manager

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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. 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.

Our mission is to empower and protect customers by providing cutting-edge, real-time defense against cyber threats, including malware, ransomware, phishing, and tech scams, across 1B+ supported devices and environments. We are dedicated to securing files, networks, and URL resources, ensuring seamless and safe experiences across the spectrum of mobile devices, desktops, and browsers. Driven by insights from billions of data points from global telemetry calls and advanced machine learning models, we proactively identify and neutralize malicious campaigns before they target our users.

We are on a mission to enable endpoint protection to every person and organization on the planet. We are looking for a Principal Engineering Manager to help us nurture a world class engineering team and design and deliver services and tools to bring cutting-edge cyber security solutions to our enterprise customers to manage and protect devices against cyber threats. You will build bar-raising engineering solutions to accelerate modernization of hyper-cloud scale services.

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.
• 3+ years people management experience of a software team
• 6+ years working experience on large scale system architecture, design, development, testing and release of full product lifecycle.
• 3+ years of experience running services on cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP

Other 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 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 September 19, 2025.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership: architecture, design, code reviews, development, quality assurance.
• Collaborate across partner teams in Microsoft.
• Lead and grow a team of high performing engineers.
• Mentor, coach, hire, retain and grow top talent.
• Foster a healthy and inclusive team environment.
• Embody Microsoft Culture and Values
• Taking part in code reviews, both as a reviewer and a reviewee, to ensure the quality of the software and promote best practices within the team.
• Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code.
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle.