Principal Software Engineer Manager
Redmond, Washington, United States
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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.
The Azure Managed HSM (Hardware Security Modules) team is seeking a Principal Software Engineer Manager to help us achieve our vision. Our team is dedicated to creating groundbreaking technologies that empower customers to protect their most valuable assets using some of Azure's most secure hardware infrastructure. With Azure Confidential Computing technologies, customers have complete control over key access and management policies. This service is fully managed, ensuring high availability and robust security guarantees. By joining our team, you'll have the opportunity to lead, define, build, and expand this platform on a large scale. We pride ourselves on fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where you can work with some of the brightest minds in the security industry.
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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years software development experience in a product group
OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of experience managing and leading product teams
- Demonstrated design and development experience with distributed programming models
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: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
Knowledge of security technologies is highly desirable
- Prior experience in building large-scale distributed systems
- The ability to learn and grasp concepts quickly in a fast-paced environment is critical to success
- Ability to multitask while balancing short-term and long-term needs is essential
- Passion for building and designing hyper scale systems
- Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills
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: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until March 20, 2025.
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Responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced software engineering manager to lead a team of engineers developing security features and services for the Azure platform around Hardware Key Management. The candidate should be an independent self-driven and hands-on manager with a proven track record running high scale services with a Livesite-first mindset, experience leading successful teams with a proven ability to collaborate effectively across the company, a passion for driving engineering cultures, and an excellent track record managing and growing/coaching engineers.
With security being top priority for Azure, this role gives excellent and highly visible opportunities to make a significant impact in securing Microsoft’s vision of the cloud.
