Principal Software Engineering Manager

Security is the most important thing for our customers who are constantly facing threats in an ever-changing digital world. Microsoft wants to make the world safer for everyone and you can be a part of that journey on the Office365 Security team. We want to transform security and give every user, customer, and developer a secure cloud that protects them with simple solutions from end to end. The Substrate Security organization helps Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to secure our platforms, devices, and cloud instances that the world is using.  Our culture focuses on having a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and motivating teams and leaders to bring their best every day. By doing this, we create innovations together, that change billions of lives around the world. 

Office365 Security team seeks a Principal Software Engineering Manager to help our team tackle some of our most complex problems – our team, of which you would be a part, is charged to increase security of mission-critical services, services which are built on modern platforms and need modern solutions.   Are you passionate about distributed systems, and how to build and run them at extreme scale in a secure fashion? Are you curious, a learner, someone who seeks to be a force multiplier through your contribution and running a team of security-focused software engineers?   We’re looking for you!

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the plant 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

As a Principal Software Engineering Manager within O365 Security team, you will lead engineers working on key components in securing our platforms and services to many scenarios from low-level devices to the application layer. These services process millions of requests per second, reliably powering trillions of transactions per day, setting availability targets (>99.99%). You bring a mix of strategy and tactics: creating clarity on where services need to be in 2-3 years' time, building and growing the right team to deliver, and diving deep into the details of what we are building.

Key functions include:

• Provide strategy, vision, product, and papers that will be presented to stakeholders and executives. 
• Drive modernization of the security platform across M365. Work with other security leaders and partner teams to build a compelling and secure platform story around these scenarios.
• Imagine, design, and drive a rapid roadmap of improvements that help the team be ready for novel new threats and attacks.
• Work with partner teams to understand needs and translate them to well defined and prioritized scenarios & requirements and plans to resolve any issues. Help build good relationships with partners as they build on our platform. 
• Define Objectives and Key results along with metrics (KPIs) and Service level agreements ( SLAs) to measure success of our platform investments.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager, or a technical lead with a passion for coaching and mentoring others.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science