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About Microsoft
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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As a Principal Software Engineering Manager within the Microsoft Security Exposure Management team, you will lead and coach a team of software engineers building a platform to help organizations identify and reduce security risks. You will oversee the entire execution lifecycle from problem definition through design, implementation, and production operation for scalable, high-throughput, multi-tenant services and data pipelines. Your role involves managing technical debt while delivering features for asset discovery, attack-path analysis, and remediation in an AI-driven threat landscape. The position requires expertise in coding languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, along with experience in distributed systems, CI/CD integration, and large-scale data processing using tools like Kusto, Spark, or Azure Synapse. You will solve complex security problems by creating clear priorities for infrastructure that ensures customer safety against digital threats.
What does a Software Engineering Manager earn?
Median $220168 from 111 postings across 39 companies.
Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers through clear goals and career development.
Manage the full execution lifecycle from problem definition and design to deployment and production operation.
Provide technical direction for scalable, high-throughput, multi-tenant services and data pipelines.
Establish high standards for engineering fundamentals including architecture, code quality, security, and performance.
Build a live-site culture by improving observability, incident response, and systematic reliability improvements.
Translate ambiguous AI-era security challenges into clear priorities and well-scoped technical milestones.
Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive customer experiences across the Securing AI pillar.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience (preferred).
2+ years of people-management or technical-leadership experience, including coaching engineers and coordinating team delivery (preferred).
Experience designing, building, and operating scalable cloud services or distributed systems with production ownership and CI/CD integration (preferred).
Experience leading projects across organizational boundaries and communicating technical decisions to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders (preferred).
Experience with high-throughput, multi-tenant systems and strong fundamentals in concurrency, resiliency, testing, maintainability, and performance optimization (preferred).
Experience with live-site operations, telemetry, incident response, large-scale data processing, or delivering AI/ML-enabled capabilities (preferred).
Python
C#
Java
C++
C
JavaScript
Spark
Kusto
Azure Data Factory
Databricks
Kubernetes
Vector Databases
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
Data Lakes
threat-modeling