Principal Group Engineering Manager

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

10h

About The Position

Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all by reshaping security and empowering 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. This role is responsible for the cloud brain of Microsoft Defender's real-time protection, including file threat defense, URL and web reputation, network protection, and the threat-intelligence pipelines and verdict services that feed them. This system is powered by hundreds of ML models and graph-based intelligence, drawing on first- and third-party signal at planetary scale. The Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) Team aims to safeguard every user with innovative proactive protection, detection, and response technologies, staying ahead of malicious actors and anticipating the threats of the future. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
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.

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
8+ years of people management experience, including experience leading multiple teams and managing other managers.
8+ years of experience designing, delivering, and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud services in production.
Proven track record operating always-on, low-latency, high-availability cloud services at global scale (high request-per-second, multi-region, including sovereign clouds).
Domain background in security — threat protection, threat intelligence, anti-malware, web/URL or network protection, EDR, or detection systems.
Experience leading AI/ML-driven systems and large-scale data platforms (e.g., telemetry, model training and serving, graph-based intelligence).

Responsibilities

Lead a globally distributed engineering organization across North America and Europe, spanning real-time systems, large-scale data platforms, machine learning, and threat intelligence.
Drive a critical and complex technical agenda, including: Modernizing the protection stack onto Kubernetes, modern .NET, and ARM-based compute.
Unifying fragmented threat intelligence into a single platform and API layer leveraged across Microsoft Security.
Scaling AI-driven detection capabilities.
Ensuring services remain always-on and continuously improve in efficiency at global scale (supporting over a billion users).
Define and set the technical direction for protecting a billion devices in real time, shaping one of the most consequential engineering missions within Microsoft Security.
Build, operate, and evolve large-scale, low-latency cloud services with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.
Grow and develop engineers and engineering leaders, setting a high bar for technical excellence, ownership, and impact.
Lead from the front on the most challenging engineering problems, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and care in building world-class systems.
Embody our Culture and Values.