Microsoft Principal Security Engineering Manager 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

538272427

We are seeking a diligent, insightful, and creative Principal Security Engineering Manager to build and lead a team to discover, diagnose, analyze, quantify, characterize and help drive solutions for the most challenging security problems in Azure through a data-driven, product-driven lens. In this role, you will advance security by working with other Security Engineers, Program and Product Managers, and Developers, as well as business leaders throughout Microsoft to turn individual findings and vulnerabilities into patterns and insights that can be measured and managed through engineering, automation, and other appropriate mitigations.  You will identify the most demanding security problems through original research and data analysis and help design and deliver practical solutions at scale for select products and services. This role is not confined to any particular area of technology; rather, you will work up and down the stack, across platforms, operating systems, languages, and frameworks, using your broad security skills to solve problems in unfamiliar domains.

Required Qualifications:

• + yearsexperience in identifying security vulnerabilities, software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection.
• 1+ year(s) people management.
• Experience in multiple classes of vulnerabilities, including cross-site scripting, buffer overflows, SQL injection, TOCTOU (Time of Check Time Of Use) vulnerabilities, cryptographic weaknesses, insecure direct object references, and others.
• Coding skills in one or more popular languages and platforms, including C/C++, C#, Java, JavaScript/Typescript, SQL, assembly, Ruby, Python, and others, and the ability to pick up new platforms quickly

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: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, ComputerScienceor related field
  • OR6+ years experience in identifying security vulnerabilities, software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection.
• 1+ year(s) people management.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 25, 2025.

• Leadership: you will demonstrate the Microsoft leadership principles of “Model, Coach, Care,” to build a happy and productive team of world-class security engineers, and participate in the broader Microsoft and industry-wide security community to advance the state of the art.
• Vulnerability discovery and variant hunting: Using the best available methodologies and techniques, you will examine chosen target systems in detail, looking for vulnerabilities and weaknesses, perform variant hunting looking for larger patterns, conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis over those patterns, and drive solutions upstream in a data-driven, shift-left fashion
• Solution design and delivery: you will help design solutions for security problems, partner with service teams and other security stakeholders to ensure rapid adoption of solutions and mitigation of threats from beginning to end.