Microsoft Principal Software Engineering Manager 

United States, Washington 

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Azure Security Team is looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager. As a Principal Software Engineering Manager in Azure Security organization, you will lead your team to build highly scalable, available, and secure cloud services that protect entire Azure infrastructure. You will be responsible for the Identity, access management, secrets protection, deployment integrity services. You will be accountable for delivery of features shipped by your team, building and retaining talent. You will provide vision for the services you own, develop strategy aligning with stake holders and develop execution plans to successfully deliver team's commitments.

Your primary responsibilities include architecting, designing, coding and operationalizing security services at hyper scale that will help ensure Azure is the most secure cloud operating system in the world! Produce crisp designs with tradeoffs, present and gather stake holder consensus. Guide other engineers by following established design and coding patterns, be the bar riser. Identify and drive dependencies for given services and features. Drive architecture improvements to reduce operational burden on services and team. Improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products at scale. Crisply plan and communicate feature delivery schedule, risks.

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.

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.

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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ 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 people management experience

Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

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

• Coaches the team to deliver success through empowerment and accountability.
• Establishes clear objectives and outcomes; Enables success across boundaries; Helps the team adapt and learn.
• Attracts and retains great people; Knows each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invests in the growth of others.
• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements within and across teams.
• Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders.
• Creates proposals for strategy, architecture and design documents and gets buy-in for proposed solutions.
• Guides team in creating clear and articulated plan for development, testing, deploying, monitoring and defines success for success.
• Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Guides team within and across teams in producing extensible, and maintainable code.
• Leads efforts to operationalize at scale by reducing incident volume, looking globally at incidences and providing broad resolutions.

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