Responsibilities
Set direction and priorities for complex data-security areas, translating customer, business, security, and privacy needs into durable roadmaps, measurable outcomes, and responsible AI-enabled engineering practices.
Guide stakeholder discovery and feedback with product, privacy/security, technical, and partner teams so requirements, success measures, customer security and privacy needs, investments, and tradeoffs are clear.
Lead accountable execution from architecture and test strategy through implementation, validation, deployment, adoption, and live-site health, creating clarity around decisions, dependencies, milestones, risks, and ownership.
Guide architecture and design quality across services and partner teams for scalable, reliable, secure data-protection capabilities spanning Microsoft 365, endpoints, AI experiences, and multicloud data estates.
Raise the engineering bar through effective code and test reviews, secure design, security testing, automated analysis, maintainability, reliability, and validation of security invariants, including negative cases. • Drive engineering excellence and operational readiness through automation, CI/CD, telemetry, safe deployment and rollback, incident response, postmortems, secure operations, and privacy-aware monitoring.
Build and sustain a healthy, inclusive, high-performing team through Model, Coach, and Care; define objectives, enable learning, invest in growth, attract and retain talent, and multiply impact through mentoring, standards, and cross-organization influence.
Qualifications
Qualifications - Required
Bachelor's with Computer Science or Engineering as major. 10+ years of experience delivering enterprise scale software services. 5+ years of experience in leading software engineering team
Qualifications - Other Requirements
- 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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications
A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and at least 6 years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python; or equivalent experience.
At least 8 years of technical engineering and coding experience with a master's degree in computer science or a related technical field, or at least 12 years with a bachelor's degree in those fields; or equivalent experience. • At least 4 years of people-management experience.
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.
