New 
Principal Software Engineer Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jul 23, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower 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. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Are you an accomplished engineer with a proven track record in leading high-scale engineering teams and tackling critical security challenges in today's digital world? Microsoft Security is seeking a dynamic Principal Software Engineer Manager to lead a key subsystem in a groundbreaking project to develop a scalable, high-performance data platform for security data. In this role, you will drive the technical strategy and feature development end-to-end, managing a talented team of engineers while collaborating with multiple partner teams to achieve results. We are building an exabyte-scale data platform to help enterprises: Inventory and map their entire digital estate: From devices and users to permissions, data systems, and virtual machines, we enable organizations to discover and gain visibility into every asset. Integrate and normalize data: By pre-integrating security data from various sources and standardizing it, we empower customers to manage security logs more efficiently and affordably. Answer critical security and governance questions: We provide insights and control over security landscapes, leveraging advanced AI and machine learning algorithms to detect patterns, uncover threats, and make informed decisions in real-time. 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.
ResponsibilitiesLead and Manage: Oversee the design, implementation, and delivery of a critical subsystem, managing a team of engineers and fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment. Drive Technical Strategy: Develop and drive the technical strategy for your subsystem, working with partner teams to align on goals and technical decisions. Feature Development: Guide the end-to-end development of features, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, and deployment. Mentor and Develop Talent: Provide mentorship and leadership to engineers, ensuring technical excellence and adherence to best practices. Performance Optimization: Optimize subsystem performance to handle extensive security data, ensuring scalability, availability, and security. Continuous Improvement: Promote continuous improvement by adopting new technologies and methodologies to enhance platform capabilities. Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with product management, data scientists, and other engineering teams to translate business needs into technical solutions and ensure seamless delivery. | |