Software Engineering Manager
About The Position
The Purview Fundamentals team provides core platform services for Microsoft Purview, including authorization, policies, scopes, alerts, and audits. The team builds platform capabilities supporting Microsoft Purview and its customers worldwide. The Software Engineering Manager leads a team of software engineers and owns services that address customer needs, with security and compliance incorporated into their design. The role is responsible for end-to-end feature and service delivery, team development, service reliability, technical direction, and cross-functional collaboration. The manager partners with product management, security, compliance, and platform teams to set roadmaps and priorities, while driving secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-conscious engineering. The position also communicates status and strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders and uses telemetry, feedback, and data to improve Purview products and services.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.
- Pass the Microsoft background check and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer, and every two years thereafter.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in Computer Science.
- Expertise in distributed systems.
- Expertise in software security.
- 10+ years of experience delivering enterprise-scale software services.
- 5+ years of experience leading software engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of Microsoft Purview features and services, from strategy and design through development, deployment, and customer adoption.
- Lead and grow a team of software engineers through coaching, career development, performance guidance, and an inclusive engineering culture.
- Drive service reliability, availability, and operational excellence through incident management, post-incident reviews, on-call readiness, and continuous service improvements.
- Partner with product management, security, compliance, and platform teams to define roadmaps, prioritize investments, and deliver customer and business outcomes.
- Champion security-first engineering practices and ensure adherence to Secure Future Initiative requirements, compliance requirements, privacy standards, and vulnerability remediation goals.
- Establish engineering processes, quality standards, and metrics aligned with New Production Function, leveraging agents across the software development lifecycle.
- Lead cross-functional collaboration across Microsoft Security, M365, Entra, and platform teams to deliver integrated Purview experiences.
- Drive technical architecture and design reviews, balancing scalability, reliability, performance, and cost.
- Manage operational priorities, technical debt reduction, and long-term platform modernization.
- Communicate engineering status, risks, dependencies, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership and stakeholders.
- Sponsor customer-focused innovation using telemetry, feedback, and data-driven insights to improve Purview products and services.
- Ensure teams maintain ownership of compliance, governance, RBAC, data protection, and enterprise security requirements across Purview workloads.
- Embody Microsoft's culture and values.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
