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.

The SAFE (Scan and Front End) team is dedicated to safeguarding Microsoft's and third-party supply chains. By operating services at scale, we meticulously scan files, applications, and content to identify and neutralize malware and vulnerabilities. Our efforts are pivotal in preventing malicious actors from exploiting Microsoft releases and marketplaces to target end-users.

We are looking to hire a Principal Software Engineering Manager to drive our services at scale to protect Microsoft's customers from malware. If you are looking for combination of engineering and security, work with security experts across the company and leading security companies in the industry, being on the front-line defending Microsoft customers from malware - this is your opportunity.

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

• Lead an engineering team that develop and maintain services responses for anti-malware scanning in the cloud
• Collaborate with PM team, customers and partner security teams
• Innovate in engineering and detection word to continuously keep services, safe, high performing and high quality
• Being a hands-on engineer, lead engineering cycle, from design & planning, to code quality & testing, to production & monitoring
• Drive service quality improvement cycle, include driving live site / pre- & post- mortem conversations, privacy and compliance reviews etc.

Other

• Embody our Culture and Values

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.
• 4+ years of professional experience developing services at scale in cloud environments
• 3+ years of professional experience in people management.

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10