Senior Engineering Manager

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 the Central Fraud and Abuse Risk (CFAR) team powered by innovation and risk intelligence. We leverage security and compliance domain expertise, troves of labeled data, and talented engineers to deliver resilient services that set the standard for the industry. We build, buy, and integrate the best available technologies and datasets to deliver a flexible, scalable platform that amplifies both automated and human decision-making. Our team embraces collaboration and the understanding that experimentation (failing fast) drives innovation. In our daily work, we demonstrate growth mindset, respect, accountability, connectedness, integrity, and agility. We are a diverse and inclusive group of individuals with big hearts, small egos, and a drive to protect others through technology.  

Now let us talk about you. We are seeking for a motivated Software Engineering Manager to lead a diverse team of talented software engineers to build best-in-class cloud-based solutions using robust coding practices and the latest tech. You relish the opportunity to create world-impacting products that most people wouldn't believe are possible, and yet you also feel motivated when contributing in small ways. You are an energetic, innovative, and caring servant leader with a passion for helping others grow and solve complex problems in a fast-paced, agile DevSecOps environment. In this role, you'll help our org to tackle complex business and engineering challenges using micro frontends, microservices and AI. 

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. 

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. 

Required qualifications: 

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent alternative education. 
• 8+ year minimum experience building software with a focus on customer facing, large scale, high availability, enterprise applications. 
• 5-year minimum development experience working with Azure cloud. 
• Strong track record of effectively leading technical teams.  
• Strong project management, communication, and leadership skills. 

Preferred qualifications: 

• Personal drive for participating in Cultural, Diversity, and Inclusion causes. 
• Strong experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, and more. 
• Strong understanding of programming patterns and architecting at scale. 
• Solid knowledge of Cloud centric data approach including SQL and NoSQL databases (ex. Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB). 
• Exposure to Agile software delivery; familiarity with the Application Lifecycle Management (Azure DevOps/VSTS, Git). 
• Solid understanding of AI and the ability to leverage LLMs to solve customer needs. 

• Coach the team by modeling our company values while creating an inclusive, energized, and supportive environment where every employee can thrive and do their best work.  
• Bring excellent software engineering practices and produce high quality code that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.  
• Build strong partnerships and collaborate well with other teams to foster great relationships with partners and customers so that we can meet our org and business goals. 
• Be a keen representative of the Microsoft cultural attributes and leadership principles so that you model the right behaviors and have a positive impact on team morale and work climate. 
• Demonstrate a sense of pride, ownership, and personal accountability for the end-to-end product. 
• Make architectural and technology decisions while driving cross-team engineering and operational excellence. 
• Hire, develop and retain the talent for our organization goals over the long term. 
• Continuously learn and apply the latest technologies in Microsoft to benefit our customers and our platform.    

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