Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Microsoft Security is seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead a key subsystem of an exabyte-scale security data platform. The role drives technical strategy and end-to-end feature development, leads a team of engineers, and collaborates with partner teams to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions. The platform integrates and normalizes security data across on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments to provide visibility into organizations’ digital estates and help customers manage security data efficiently. It uses AI and machine learning to uncover threats, identify patterns, and answer security and governance questions in real time.

The manager leads engineering practices across the software development lifecycle, including responsible use of AI, test strategy and automation, dependency integration, code quality, security, compliance, reliability, deployment automation, and cross-team product integration. The role also develops team capabilities and promotes Microsoft’s growth mindset, collaboration, inclusion, respect, integrity, and accountability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of experience with distributed systems delivering large-scale, secure, and resilient cloud services.
• 4+ years of people management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead disciplined use and improvement of AI tools and practices across the software development lifecycle, including ownership of AI-generated requirements, designs, code, and assets, and Responsible AI controls.
• Coach the use of engineering health measures, including Accelerate, SPACE, and ESSP, to improve processes, especially those involving AI.
• Lead AI experimentation and make recommendations for adoption.
• Guide test strategy to ensure product quality and prevent regressions, including security tests and negative cases.
• Lead efforts to add tests for gaps, fix or remove broken tests, and improve test-suite speed, reliability, and defect localization.
• Ensure test frameworks are scalable and reliable, and that code is designed to be testable; lead redesign of untestable code as needed.
• Apply knowledge of test types and architectures, and advocate for AI-assisted test automation.
• Guide identification of dependencies and their integration into design documents; identify technologies and teams to leverage and how systems support each other.
• Ensure security, compliance, performance, and reliability across the stack.
• Collaborate across teams to resolve dependency ownership and validation conflicts and align delivery schedules.
• Coach engineers on reviewing product and test code for standards, coverage, and fitness for purpose.
• Lead timely, insightful code reviews that improve quality and accelerate delivery, assessing diagnosability, reliability, testability, maintainability, security, compliance, and engineering best practices.
• Ensure automated source-code analysis is included in the build and development process.
• Guide identification of automation requirements and implementation of automation across production and deployment, targeting zero-touch deployment.
• Guide validation in simulated and non-production environments.
• Ensure CI/CD infrastructure supports developer and operational agility, including low lead time to change.
• Collaborate with partner teams to ensure products integrate with partner components, with end-to-end testing, live-site coverage, scalability, performance, and DRI escalation paths established before go-live.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; the job description refers applicants to Microsoft’s benefits and pay information page.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal