Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization is looking to accelerate its mission and bold ambitions in securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in customer environments, as well as ensuring the security of its own internal estate. The organization needs a Principal Engineering Manager to lead security strategies across critical services, assess risks, identify critical data sources and mitigation strategies, and evolve defenses based on the threat landscape.
Requirements
- 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- 8+ years of experience in designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, including production ownership, CI/CD integration, and applying distributed systems concepts (e.g., concurrency, conflict resolution, consensus algorithms) for resilience and maintainability.
- coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- technical engineering experience
- coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- technical engineering experience
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage software engineering team in the design, development, testing and development of technologies.
- Provide technical leadership to develop and implement engineering standards and procedures for technical excellence and high quality outcomes.
- Develops best practices for others to review debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods, and acts as an expert for others to verify assumptions through writing and developing code proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur across products and multiple teams.
- Embeds security engineering throughout the development lifecycle; defines secure coding practices, ensures regulatory compliance, and leads incident readiness and vulnerability mitigation strategies.
- Oversees overall system architecture of critical security services and products.
- Establishes processes to measure and ensure system architecture is effective and meets the current and future needs and requirements
- Builds and maintains strategic and impactful partnerships to align cross-functional security and product teams and drive outcomes and set standards.
Other
- Role type: People Manager
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their U.S. permanent residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.
- 8+ years of experience in leading engineering teams or managing technical projects, collaborating across multiple teams and stakeholders to deliver complex solutions, drive innovation, and achieve measurable results in large-scale or mission-critical environments.
