Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization is looking to lead security strategies across critical services to ensure the security of digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in customer environments, as well as Microsoft's own internal estate.
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.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage software engineering team in the design, development, testing and development of technologies.
- Builds and maintains strategic and impactful partnerships to align cross-functional security and product teams and drive outcomes and set standards.
- 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
Other
- Lead and manage software engineering team in the design, development, testing and development of technologies.
- Mentor and develop team members, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment
- 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
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
