Principal Software Engineering Manager

Security 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.

Microsoft Purview solutions offer integrated coverage to address data fragmentation across organizations, improve visibility for data protection and governance, and address the merging of traditional IT management roles. Our team ensures the consistent and efficient delivery of Microsoft Purview solutions across all specialized environments, including Government and Sovereign clouds, while complying with relevant standards and regulations. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead high-impact infrastructure initiatives for Microsoft Purview, driving technical strategy and execution with broad visibility across teams and ensuring compliance with stringent security and regulatory standards.

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.

Responsibilities

• Establish long term technical strategy and direction for key Platform Initiatives. 
• Create and improve architecture designs for complex end to end scenarios that involve multiple teams and services. 
• Drive the engineering culture to strive for a scalable architecture, operational excellence, experimentation driven culture, growth mindset, and being customer obsessed. 
• Influence, lead, and collaborate effectively across leadership, teams, and organizations to drive outcomes – the scope here is company-wide. 
• Collaborate with Product teams to make sure we address key customer needs and put customer feedback in center of product design.
• Operate effectively amongst executive leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Fosters a healthy and inclusive team environment.

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Qualifications - Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP, or comparable cloud environments, with production ownership and CI/CD pipeline integration.​
• 4+ years of experience applying dist