Principal Security Engineering Manager
MicrosoftAbout the role
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.
The Identity Security (IDSEC) team is seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead a multidisciplinary team of Security Engineers and Software Engineers focused on protecting the largest and most critical identity platform in the world.
This leader will drive the engineering strategy, operational execution, and technical direction behind vulnerability reduction and defensive engineering initiatives across Microsoft Identity. The role combines deep security expertise with strong engineering leadership and requires the ability to operate effectively during both strategic planning and high-priority security events.
This role requires a leader who can translate security risk into engineering action, influence across organizational boundaries, and help shape the future of AI-powered security operations.
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.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Responsibilities
Lead Security and Software Engineering Teams
Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of Security Engineers and Software Engineers.
Establish a culture of accountability, technical excellence, urgency, and continuous learning.
Drive hiring, career development, performance management, and organizational effectiveness.
Foster strong partnerships across engineering, architecture, data science, operations, and security teams.
Build Security Capabilities at Scale
Develop scalable solutions that reduce risk across the identity ecosystem.
Improve speed and effectiveness of finding, triaging, investigating, and remediating security issues.
Partner with platform teams to embed security controls directly into engineering workflows.
Advance AI-Powered Security Engineering
Leverage AI and automation to accelerate security analysis, investigations, vulnerability management, and response activities.
Drive engineering investments that improve analyst efficiency and reduce mean time to investigate and remediate.
Partner with research and engineering teams to operationalize new security capabilities.
Influence Security Strategy
Partner with senior engineering and security leaders to identify emerging risks and prioritize investments.
Translate complex technical findings into actionable recommendations for executives and stakeholders.
Represent the organization in executive reviews, incident leadership forums, and strategic security initiatives.
Drive alignment across teams to ensure rapid execution against critical security priorities.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or related field AND 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, or anomaly detection
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, threat modeling, cyber security, or anomaly detection
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