Principal Software Engineering Manager - Red Team

Overview

The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

Do you thrive on creatively solving complex challenges, growing others' careers, and collaborating across large organizations to drive success? Want to work with a high performing team that delivers impact across Microsoft? The Microsoft Red Team Intelligence team is looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager for our intelligence analytics team.

The CISO Org is Microsoft's central cybersecurity authority, accountable for managing and prioritizing cybersecurity risk across the company. The Microsoft Red Team is responsible for finding and demonstrating risk to proactively identify and mitigate vulnerabilities. The Microsoft Red Team Intelligence Team is a specialized unit within the broader Red Team that focuses on generating actionable intelligence to support adversarial risk analysis. We provide data and insight to discover, assess, and track potential security and privacy risks exploitable by malicious actors, including Microsoft Red Team breach operators.

As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of software engineers and analysts to build tooling that leverages our security graph to discover and quantify security risks. You will help the team model & codify lateral movement paths, use graph and data to uncover new security antipatterns, and communicate findings with stakeholders. You will collaborate with partners across Microsoft to help them strengthen Microsoft's defenses in our rapidly evolving threat landscape.

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Foster employee growth and development through thoughtful guidance, effective project execution, and clear performance management. Empower success by leading with care, coaching with intention, and setting a positive example.
• Provide oversight and support to team members to ensure delivery of clean, extensible, and maintainable code. Ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility. Champion best practices and coding standards while offering deep expertise in development and validation strategies. 
• Lead identification of potential security vulnerabilities. Build a team with expertise in large scale data analysis and graph traversal to develop capabilities that finds security antipatterns.
• Lead collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to communicate findings, identify remediation opportunities, and improve Microsoft's security posture.
• Participate in on-call rotations accountable for the availability and reliability of service operations

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent 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 Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Security Graph or Red Team experience strongly preferred

• 4+ years people management experience

• OR similar experience managing projects.

• 2+ years of cybersecurity experience

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Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.