Principal Engineering Manager

1 Week ago • 6-10 Years • Cyber Security • $137,600 PA - $294,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Lead and grow a team of 8-10 high-performing engineers focused on building and operating a world-class authorization platform for Microsoft Entra and Azure. Responsibilities include hands-on technical leadership (architecture, design, code reviews, development, QA, live site maintenance), managing large-scale authorization systems, driving security and resilience efforts, partnering with product management, collaborating across teams, fostering a positive team environment, and meeting business objectives. The platform secures access to online resources for millions of users, handling millions of requests per minute with low latency. The role requires experience in large-scale system architecture, design, development, and release across the full product lifecycle, with expertise in security frameworks (role-based, attribute-based) and building resilient, scalable platforms.
Must have:
  • Lead engineering teams
  • Large-scale system architecture
  • Security frameworks (role-based, attribute-based)
  • C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Rust, or Python
  • 6+ years experience
Good to have:
  • Project Management Experience
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science

Job Details

Overview

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.

 

We are hiring a Principal Engineering Manager to join our mission of securing access to world’s online resources by building and operating an authorization platform with world class fundamentals that makes Entra and Azure customers the most secure and productive in the world. Microsoft Identity & Network Access (IDNA) is at the heart of the day-to-day technology experience and secures over a billion monthly active users. It powers the identity experience which is at the core of almost every Microsoft product and service from Windows to Office, from Azure to Xbox. Microsoft Identity is a booming business and we’re just getting started on our mission to secure and protect the world’s most valuable assets and most highly trafficked services.  We innovate on multiple technical aspects: 1. Architecting services for large scale and low latency requirements to handle millions of requests per minute completing under 10ms. 2. Security investments that span authorization frameworks such as role-based and attribute-based. 3. Experiences to understand access to resources in a way that is simple to comprehend and achieve least standing privileges. 4. Build a resilient platform that works for all services offered by Azure and Microsoft as well as extend to work where our customer enterprises run their applications beyond Azure. 5. Secure Azure across all the services to reduce the surface area by granular controls and having least standing privileges between systems. 6. Operating services in an efficient and hands-free manner. 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.

 

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.

 

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, Rust, or Python

    • OR equivalent experience.

  • 2+ years people management experience of a software team
  • 6+ years working experience on large scale system architecture, design, development, testing and release of full product lifecycle.

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.

  • Project 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:

 

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 1, 2025.

 

 

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Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a team of 8-10 high performing engineers.
  • Mentor, coach, hire, retain and grow top talent.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership: architecture, design, code reviews, development, quality assurance and live site.
  • Maintain and grow large scale authorization systems while driving security and resiliency efforts.
  • Partner with Product Management to meet immediate and longer-term business objectives.
  • Collaborate across partner teams in Microsoft.
  • Foster a healthy and inclusive team environment. Embody Microsoft Culture and Values 

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