Principal Group Engineering Manager

Microsoft

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $165,600–$296,400 / yr
Posted: 4 days ago
Closes: Dec 8, 2026
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

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TL;DR · Principal Group Engineering Manager

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As a Principal Group Engineering Manager for the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint team, you will lead a globally distributed engineering organization responsible for real-time protection services that safeguard over a billion devices. Your daily responsibilities include modernizing the protection stack onto Kubernetes and ARM-based compute, unifying threat intelligence platforms, scaling AI-driven detection capabilities, and ensuring continuous improvement in service efficiency at global scale. You will define technical direction, build large-scale cloud services with reliability and performance as top priorities, and grow engineering talent by setting high standards for excellence and innovation. This role requires extensive experience in leading teams that design and operate large-scale distributed systems, a background in security technologies such as threat protection and AI/ML-driven systems, and proven expertise in managing always-on, low-latency cloud services at global scale.

Skills

Kubernetes .NET ARM AI Machine Learning Threat Intelligence Cloud Services Docker CI/CD Python Go PostgreSQL Redis AWS Azure Grafana Prometheus GitOps

What you'll do

Lead modernization of the protection stack onto Kubernetes, .NET, and ARM-based compute.
Unify fragmented threat intelligence into a single platform and API layer for Microsoft Security.
Scale AI-driven detection capabilities to protect billions of devices in real time.
Ensure cloud services remain always-on with continuous improvement in efficiency at global scale.
Build and evolve large-scale, low-latency cloud services focusing on reliability, scalability, and performance.

What we're looking for

8+ years of people management experience, including managing multiple teams and other managers.
Proven track record operating always-on, low-latency cloud services at global scale.
Extensive experience designing, delivering, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems or cloud services in production.
Domain expertise in security technologies such as threat protection, anti-malware, web/URL protection, EDR, and detection systems.
Experience leading AI/ML-driven systems and large-scale data platforms for telemetry, model training, and graph-based intelligence.

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