Principal Engineering Manager Job at Microsoft in Redmond, WA, U.S.
About the Job
Security represents the most critical priority 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 are securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our 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.
We are looking to hire a Principal Engineering Manager Job role. The Identity engineering team builds and manages Microsoft’s online identity providers for all of Microsoft’s online services and platforms like Azure, Office, Xbox, and HoloLens. We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances in online security and user management. Our work spans both the consumer and enterprise space and can be found in internet-scale online services, the Windows operating system, and most phones and handheld devices. Identity engineering employees have deep technical expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, very large-scale experience. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates. Our teams are seeking experienced and passionate software engineering managers to join us as we create and deliver mission-critical services and processes to enable Microsoft’s online presence. You’ll have the opportunity to lead creative, compelling, and cutting-edge services that support our worldwide operations. You will be responsible for hiring and growing the best engineers in the world while forming some of the best service teams in Microsoft. Our culture promotes diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion, and is reflected in all of the things we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us – it is the foundation of what we do. Our team has a great sense of accountability and provides its members with many opportunities for learning and career growth. We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire, and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more!
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.
Responsibilities
This is a broad cross-team role with high visibility, collaborating with multiple teams across Microsoft. Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of services for extremely high scale, throughput, durability, and low latency. Innovate and make service deployment and maintenance an efficient well-oiled machine that provides excellent reliability with minimal manual engineer intervention. Lead the definition of requirements, KPIs, priorities, and planning of engineering deliverables. Mentor and grow the energetic, diverse, and driven team with a good mix of senior, mid-level, and junior talent.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
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Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C#, Java, Scala, or TypeScript
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OR equivalent experience
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4+ years of people management experience AND 2+ years of experience in leading an engineering team
Other Requirements
The ability to meet Microsoft’s Principal Engineering Manager, customer, and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
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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
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Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
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OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
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OR equivalent experience.
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About Company
Microsoft is an equal-opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
