Principal Software Engineering Manager

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.

The Service-to-Service Authentication Team builds and operates the foundation that secures non-human identity and communication across Microsoft and customer environments. Our services authenticate and authorize billions of transactions every hour, protecting critical Azure infrastructure, Microsoft services, customer workloads, and the next generation of AI-powered agents. As a core component of Microsofts security and cloud platform, our systems operate at global scale and are essential to the trust, reliability, and resilience of the worlds most important digital experiences.

Security threats continue to evolve rapidly, and service identities have become one of the most critical security boundaries in modern computing. As a highly strategic and security-sensitive area of investment, our team is shaping the future of how services, applications, and AI agents establish trust and communicate securely across the Microsoft ecosystem.

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to drive the next phase of our transformation. In this role, you will lead a team of talented engineers, define technical and organizational strategy, improve engineering excellence and operational effectiveness, and partner across Microsoft Security, Entra, and Azure to deliver secure, resilient, and scalable identity solutions. This is an opportunity to influence authentication systems that underpin Microsofts cloud platform while helping define the future of service identity for the AI era.

Microsofts mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We embrace a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Every day, we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a diverse team of engineers, cultivating an inclusive, high-performing culture that attracts and develops world-class talent.
• Define and execute the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for service-to-service authentication capabilities that operate at cloud scale.
• Drive engineering execution by establishing clear priorities, decision-making frameworks, and operating rhythms that enable predictable delivery and measurable impact.
• Partner across Azure, Security, Entra, and platform teams to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient identity solutions that address evolving customer and business needs.
• Champion a security-first engineering culture, ensuring systems are designed and operated with a focus on defense-in-depth, reliability, privacy, and compliance.
• Lead the teams adoption of AI-powered and AI-assisted engineering practices while maintaining a great foundation in software engineering fundamentals and quality.
• Drive operational excellence through clear service ownership, live-site health management, incident response readiness, and continuous improvement of reliability and resiliency.
• Foster customer obsession by leveraging customer, developer, and partner feedback to influence strategy and deliver impactful platform innovations.
• Build and scale engineering systems, processes, and talent pipelines that enable long-term organizational growth and sustainable execution.
• Serve as a technical and organizational leader, influencing strategy, engineering culture, and cross-company initiatives that shape the future of service identity at Microsoft.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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.

• 10+ years of experience designing, building, and delivering large-scale software products, cloud services, or distributed systems, with a track record of solving complex customer and business challenges.

• 4+ years of people management experience leading high-performing engineering teams, developing talent, driving execution, and delivering results through cross-functional collaboration.

• Demonstrated technical leadership in defining architecture, developer experiences, and platform capabilities that operate at scale, including influencing strategy across multiple teams and organizations.

• Experience leveraging AI technologies to build intelligent systems, improve engineering productivity, and deliver innovative customer experiences, with a passion for making AI accessible and impactful.

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Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $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.