Principal Group Software Engineering Manager
Redmond, WA 
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Posted 12 days ago
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OverviewSecurity 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 mission of M365 Security Team is to enable Microsoft to build the most trusted devices and services, while keeping our company safe and our data protected. As part of the Microsoft Security organization, and a steward of Microsoft and our customer's data, a core function of the M365 Security team is ensuring the security of every aspect of the business. M365 Security team is responsible for company-wide information security and compliance, with a strategic focus on information protection, assessment, awareness, governance, and enterprise business continuity. Millions of customers rely on the Microsoft cloud to host their data and power productivity scenarios, and Microsoft Security is at the forefront of securing these customers. As part of this critical mission, the Microsoft Security team is looking to hire a Principal Group Software Engineering Manager leader who is capable of fostering borderless collaboration within complex landscapes. This role demands unwavering commitment to achieving critical security outcomes for our customers, and is pivotal in safeguarding Microsoft 365 infrastructure and the infrastructure of related services. The incumbent will spearhead technological and engineering initiatives aimed at fortifying M365, specifically focuses on key areas such as identity, access control, secure deployment, and code security. Success in this role hinges on close collaboration with the M365 service team to deeply understand service architecture and identify innovative ways to elevate security standards. This presents an exhilarating opportunity to defend one of the largest cloud services in the world. The ideal candidate should possess a blend of security and engineering expertise along with exceptional prowess in building and leading diverse engineering teams. 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.
ResponsibilitiesPartners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios. Leverages a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. Leads incorporation of appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value. Begins to determine additional critical metrics.Leads efforts and discussions for the architecture of aspects of products/solutions (e.g., design, cost). Creates proposals for architecture and design documents and leads testing of hypotheses and proposed solutions. Shares and acts on findings from investigations, owns design decisions, and oversees the junior team members.Leads the development of design documents for designs or User Stories and determines the technology that will be leveraged and how they will interact.Leads design discussions with the team and shares findings/learnings from investigations, holding ownership for design decisions. Leads efforts to assure system architecture meets security and compliance requirements and expectations.Leads efforts for creation and conducting of experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes, monitors developments for prototyping and testing products, interprets results, and decides on next steps or ship decision from results. Drives identification of the correct metrics for experimentation in determining improving customer value.OtherEmbody our Culture and Values

 

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