PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENG MGR

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. 

Companies collectively have multitude of systems (devices, users, permissions, data systems etc.) and own Exabytes of data across hundreds of billions of streams, files, tables, reports, spreadsheets, VMs (Virtual Machines), Notebooks, and so on. Yet customers can’t answer basic questions like what systems do they have in their digital estate? What’s in those systems? Companies can’t protect or govern what they don’t know. Are the systems being used in ways that comply with both legal and corporate policies? Our team’s job is to answer these questions for customers across on-prem, multi-cloud, SaaS systems etc.  by building a Software as a Service infrastructure to:   

• Inventory all the systems that exist in customers digital estate. 
• Pre-integrate data in customers digital estate, normalize it in a standard format to make security log retention and use significantly more affordable with less effort. 

We are looking for a Principal Engineer Manager to build next generation security data platform and partner with several teams in Microsoft Security and Azure organization.

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

Expertise/Experience 

• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and common Design Patterns 
• 8+ years of relevant software development experience and big data processing experience highly desirable
• Relevant people management experience
• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.
• Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks.
• Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.
• Analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.
• Passion for building highly scalable, highly reliable services.
• Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes.
• Collaborating with technical partners to deliver end-to-end solutions 
• Experience with multithreading and asynchronous processing 
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline using agile practices 
• Ability to quickly ramp up on multiple technology areas  

Interpersonal skills 

• Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges 
• Cultural sensitivity and a proven ability to work with teams and partners across multiple geographies. 
• A sense of personal ownership is required, together with the ability to deliver to tight deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations 
• Self-motivated and organized to deliver results  

Essential qualifications 

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience. 
• Minimum of 8+ years of applicable work 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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

As a Principal Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the following: 

• Driving the strategy, vision, and execution for the team in collaboration with the Data Security Leadership team - compromised of engineering, design, and program management leaders.
• Lead team through design, architecture and execution of core services at planet scale.
• Lead the definition of requirements, key performance indicator (KPIs), priorities and planning of engineering deliverables. 
• Innovate and make service deployment and maintenance an efficient well-oiled machine that provides excellent reliability with minimal manual engineer intervention.
• Coach team leaders and engineers within the team, grow the energetic, diverse, and high energy team, senior managers and ICs.
• Actively shape and drive a flexible, diverse, and inclusive culture where everyone is enabled to be at their best.
• We are looking for someone who shares our passion for building great software for enterprises. You will work in a forward-looking product as part of an agile, collaborative, and cross-discipline team.