Principal Software Engineering Manager

31 Minutes ago • 6-10 Years • Cyber Security • $137,600 PA - $294,000 PA

About the job

Job Description

This Principal Software Engineering Manager role within Microsoft's Sovereign Cloud Security team focuses on the observability of Azure security services in sovereign clouds. Responsibilities include leading and developing a high-performing team, creating robust career development plans, planning and executing technical deliverables, working with external partners, and guiding partnerships with Azure Security stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have experience with high-throughput, multi-tenant services, possess strong coding skills (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python), and a proven ability to design, develop, and maintain high-quality software. The role requires meeting Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements.
Must have:
  • 6+ years technical engineering experience
  • Experience with high-throughput, multi-tenant services
  • Strong coding skills (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python)
  • Leadership and people management skills
  • Ability to meet Microsoft security screening requirements
Good to have:
  • 10+ years technical engineering experience
  • 2+ years of people management experience
Perks:
  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Networking opportunities

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.

 

Sovereign Cloud Security secures Microsoft's clouds for governments around the world through enabling best in class security solutions for our customers through foundational services. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager with experience working with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability.

 

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, or Python

o 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

 

Citizenship Verification: This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide proof of citizenship, U.S. permanent residency, or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information.  To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.

 

This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

 

  • 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • 2+ years of 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: 

 

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 27, 2024.




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Responsibilities

  • Focus on observability of the Azure security services in Sovereign clouds and be customer and partner focused.
  • Create robust career development plans to help team members grow.
  • Lead, coach, and build a diverse, inclusive, high-performing team where all team members can do their best work.
  • Help the team plan and execute technical deliverables.
  • Work closely with our external partners to support the team’s mission.
  • Guide partnership with appropriate stakeholders within Azure Security to determine requirements within and across teams.

 

Other

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Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
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$137.6K - $294.0K/yr (Outscal est.)
$215.8K/yr avg.
Redmond, Washington, United States

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