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.

Security represents one of the most critical priorities for our customers in a world of digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Our Team builds and operates hardware-backed key management services that enable customers and Microsoft teams to protect their most valuable assets using some of Azure’s most secure hardware infrastructure. Our portfolio spans multiple offerings—including Managed HSM, Cloud HSM, Dedicated HSM, and Payments HSM—delivering strong security boundaries, high availability, and rigorous operational guarantees for cryptographic key protection scenarios at cloud scale. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead and run a hardware backed key management service end-to-end: setting technical direction, driving operational excellence and reliability, and partnering broadly to meet stringent security and compliance requirements. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day; in doing so, we create innovations that can have a meaningful impact on a global scale.

• Lead an engineering team that builds and operates hardware-backed key management services, including service reliability, performance, and operational readiness
• Own production outcomes end-to-end: service health, incident response, root-cause learning, and risk reduction through engineering improvements and automation.
• Drive a roadmap that advances security, compliance, and engineering fundamentals (deployment safety, validation, observability, and resiliency) for hardware-backed cryptographic services.
• Partner across engineering and stakeholder teams to deliver secure key protection outcomes for both internal and customer scenarios, aligning to evolving requirements and standards.
• Hire, coach, and develop senior engineers; create clarity, accountability, and an inclusive team culture that scales execution

Required/minimum qualifications

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.

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