Principal Engineering Manager

at  Microsoft

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.
The Microsoft Entra group serves over a billion active users, powering the Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Account services that are at the core of Microsoft products and platforms like Office, Azure, CoPilot and Gaming. Our engineering team has opportunities for engineers to work across the stack from delivering user-facing experiences to innovations in hyper-scale, geo-distributed, stateful, fault tolerant services. We are the Authentication Experiences team responsible for delivering the sign up, sign in and account management experiences for securing access to your favorite applications and services.
We are looking for an experienced software engineering manager with years of technical expertise in building highly scalable and distributed systems to join us to support new and exciting scenarios across consumer and enterprise spaces. This opportunity will allow you to work on core services with over 1Billion MAU and you will need to draw on your deep technical experience to support your team. You will also have an important role in building and shaping the team’s engineering culture, work in a collaborative hybrid work environment, and embrace a live site-first mentality, which is required to run critical services at hyper-scale. You’ll join a team of amazing and passionate software engineers and managers, who will help you to learn and grow every day.
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:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline
• Advanced technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python o OR equivalent experience. Additional or Preferred Qualification
• Lead/Senior people management 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.

Other:

• A passion for building strong engineering teams that deliver their best every day.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, async programming patterns, object-oriented design, parallel programming).
• Experience with distributed systems design and implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with others and inspire software engineers to be their best selves.
• Clear and effective communication, for technical and business scenarios

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

• Provide technical leadership for the team.
• You’ll tap into your own technical experience to support the team in developing technical designs as well as contributing, coaching, and reviewing technical designs from across Microsoft.
• Partner with key stakeholders to drive improvements and change across multiple teams across multiple geographies in the Microsoft Entra as well are other organizations.
• Support the team in designing and developing large scale distributed software services and solutions.
• Embody Microsoft’s ‘coach, model, care’ mindset to ensure that your team is healthy and challenged.
• Gain a deep understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with other leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.