Microsoft
Principal Group Software Engineering Manager
Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, United States, 98052
Principal Group Software 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’re seeking a
Principal Group Software Engineering Manager
to drive delivery and integration with Microsoft Security services and key M365 workloads (Outlook.com/Exchange, SharePoint, Teams). In this role, you’ll lead an engineering team to advance our protection platform, design and deploy new capabilities, and ensure we stay ahead of threat actors. You’ll balance technical and business priorities, align work to organizational OKRs, and thrive in a dynamic global security landscape. Determined customer focus, deep security curiosity, and collaboration with Product Management, Security Research, and Support teams are essential to deliver timely, high-impact solutions.
Hybrid Position This
Hybrid Position
is located at our
Microsoft office in Redmond, Washington . Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates
will need to relocate or reside
within 50 miles of the field location.
Responsibilities
Lead and grow a high‑performing engineering team, fostering a culture of growth mindset, diversity, and inclusion.
Champion Microsoft’s Model, Coach, Care philosophy to develop future leaders.
Drive a strong Quality, Security, and Live Site culture to meet and exceed customer expectations.
Architect, design, and implement scalable, reliable, and cost‑effective services with low latency and high throughput.
Define requirements, OKRs, priorities, and delivery plans for engineering initiatives.
Partner with Product Management, Research, and cross‑functional teams to align on requirements and strategy.
Optimize and refactor code for performance, maintainability, and ROI across services and components.
Streamline service deployment and maintenance for maximum reliability with minimal manual intervention.
Innovate and evolve protection capabilities to stay ahead of emerging threats.
Promote Microsoft’s mission and values—respect, integrity, accountability—to create an inclusive, thriving culture.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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).
8+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices.
8+ years of experience in leading engineering teams or managing technical projects, collaborating across multiple teams and stakeholders to deliver complex solutions, drive innovation, and achieve measurable results in large‑scale or mission‑critical environments.
8+ years of experience in designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, including production ownership, CI/CD integration, and applying distributed systems concepts (e.g., concurrency, conflict resolution, consensus algorithms) for resilience and maintainability.
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 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).
15+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices.
15+ years of experience in leading engineering teams or managing technical projects, collaborating across multiple teams and stakeholders to deliver complex solutions, drive innovation, and achieve measurable results in large‑scale or mission‑critical environments.
15+ years of experience in designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, including production ownership, CI/CD integration, and applying distributed systems concepts (e.g., concurrency, conflict resolution, consensus algorithms) for resilience and maintainability.
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until
October 24th 2025 .
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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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’re seeking a
Principal Group Software Engineering Manager
to drive delivery and integration with Microsoft Security services and key M365 workloads (Outlook.com/Exchange, SharePoint, Teams). In this role, you’ll lead an engineering team to advance our protection platform, design and deploy new capabilities, and ensure we stay ahead of threat actors. You’ll balance technical and business priorities, align work to organizational OKRs, and thrive in a dynamic global security landscape. Determined customer focus, deep security curiosity, and collaboration with Product Management, Security Research, and Support teams are essential to deliver timely, high-impact solutions.
Hybrid Position This
Hybrid Position
is located at our
Microsoft office in Redmond, Washington . Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates
will need to relocate or reside
within 50 miles of the field location.
Responsibilities
Lead and grow a high‑performing engineering team, fostering a culture of growth mindset, diversity, and inclusion.
Champion Microsoft’s Model, Coach, Care philosophy to develop future leaders.
Drive a strong Quality, Security, and Live Site culture to meet and exceed customer expectations.
Architect, design, and implement scalable, reliable, and cost‑effective services with low latency and high throughput.
Define requirements, OKRs, priorities, and delivery plans for engineering initiatives.
Partner with Product Management, Research, and cross‑functional teams to align on requirements and strategy.
Optimize and refactor code for performance, maintainability, and ROI across services and components.
Streamline service deployment and maintenance for maximum reliability with minimal manual intervention.
Innovate and evolve protection capabilities to stay ahead of emerging threats.
Promote Microsoft’s mission and values—respect, integrity, accountability—to create an inclusive, thriving culture.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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).
8+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices.
8+ years of experience in leading engineering teams or managing technical projects, collaborating across multiple teams and stakeholders to deliver complex solutions, drive innovation, and achieve measurable results in large‑scale or mission‑critical environments.
8+ years of experience in designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, including production ownership, CI/CD integration, and applying distributed systems concepts (e.g., concurrency, conflict resolution, consensus algorithms) for resilience and maintainability.
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 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).
15+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices.
15+ years of experience in leading engineering teams or managing technical projects, collaborating across multiple teams and stakeholders to deliver complex solutions, drive innovation, and achieve measurable results in large‑scale or mission‑critical environments.
15+ years of experience in designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, including production ownership, CI/CD integration, and applying distributed systems concepts (e.g., concurrency, conflict resolution, consensus algorithms) for resilience and maintainability.
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until
October 24th 2025 .
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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