Principal Software Engineering Manager

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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 Key Vault team is at the forefront of securing the cloud. We build and operate a critical platform service that safeguards cryptographic keys, secrets, certificates, and other sensitive assets for Microsoft and its customers. Our mission is to empower developers and enterprises to protect their data and applications with confidence, using scalable, resilient, and compliant security primitives. As part of the Identity and Access Management division, Azure Key Vault plays a foundational role in enabling secure identity, authentication, and authorization scenarios across Azure and Microsoft 365.

Our service supports a wide range of use cases—from securing secrets for cloud-native applications to enabling hardware-backed key protection for regulated industries. We collaborate closely with partner teams across Azure Compute, Storage, Networking, and Compliance to ensure that Key Vault meets the highest standards of security, performance, and reliability. Our engineers work on distributed systems, cryptographic protocols, secure APIs, and large-scale telemetry pipelines.

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.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's 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.
• 5+ years of hands-on development experience including leading architecture for large scale system (storage, cloud computing) designing, and writing code, experience in coding in C#, .NET. Prior experience and/or subject matter expertise in service reliability, Network Security, Encryption, and Authentication.
• 3+ years of experience with developing large high-volume services, with service-oriented development and cloud-based systems.
• 2+ years 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 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 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Master's 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.

• 4+ years people management experience.

Software Engineering IC5 - 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 31, 2025.

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• Manage a range of talented engineers, spanning various career stages including managers and individual contributors.
• Attract and retain great talent; know each individual’s capabilities & aspirations and invest in the growth of others.
• Help the team adapt and learn; model resourcefulness and initiative to meet product objectives.
• Identify opportunities & evaluate effectiveness working with multiple external co-development engineering teams.
• Collaborate amongst a cross-functional leadership team to deliver engineering solutions that match project goals & timelines.
• Drive technical excellence across the team, making technology choices that scale to millions of players across a variety of hardware endpoints.
• Develop engineering systems & culture centered around continuous feature delivery, demonstrating progress in build and quickly addressing customer needs.
• Identify & direct engineering investments necessary for continuous measurement against product quality goals.