Senior Software Engineering Manager

The Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsofts 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 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 awash in digital threats regulatory scrutiny and estate complexity. The Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is accountable for managing and prioritizing cybersecurity risks for Microsoft. This team oversees the companys overall cyber defense including the security of Microsoft products and business operations and collaborates with Engineering teams to advance Secure Future Initiative (SFI) objectives.

Security is a core priority for Microsoft and Identity and Access Management protections are essential to protecting Microsoft at global scale. We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team of Software Engineers building the next generation of cloud-native platform services that power Microsofts tenant management and identity ecosystem. This role combines deep technical leadership with people leadership to deliver highly scalable distributed systems modern engineering platforms intelligent automation and AI-native engineering practices that strengthen Microsofts security posture while simplifying engineering operations

• Lead coach and grow a high-performing team of Software Engineers building secure cloud-native platform services that power Microsofts tenant lifecycle management orchestration identity governance and application governance capabilities.
• Define the engineering vision technical strategy and architecture for next-generation platform capabilities spanning tenant lifecycle automation workflow orchestration and AI-enabled engineering experiences.
• Drive the design and delivery of scalable distributed systems APIs platform services and data-driven solutions that improve security operational efficiency and developer productivity.
• Partner across engineering product identity security data and infrastructure teams to translate customer needs into integrated platform capabilities while driving cross-organizational execution.
• Champion engineering excellence by fostering AI-native software development modern engineering practices secure-by-design principles high-quality architecture testing code quality and operational readiness.
• Lead platform modernization through cloud-native architectures API-first design Infrastructure as Code automation CI/CD observability and data-driven engineering practices.
• Establish operational excellence by building resilient services with comprehensive monitoring telemetry live-site readiness incident management and continuous service improvements.
• Drive execution across multiple engineering investments by managing technical priorities dependencies resources and delivery commitments while balancing long-term platform strategy with near-term business objectives.
• Build an inclusive high-performing engineering culture by attracting developing and mentoring exceptional talent while empowering engineers to innovate collaborate and grow.

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6 years of technical engineering experience designing and building large-scale software systems with coding experience in languages including but not limited to C C or C#
• OR equivalent experience.
• 4 years of people management experience leading high-performing Software Engineering teams delivering cloud-native applications distributed systems platform services or enterprise engineering platforms.
• Proven experience designing building and operating highly available mission-critical distributed systems or cloud-native platform services at enterprise scale.
• Experience leading engineering organizations through architecture evolution platform modernization and delivery of complex technical initiatives using modern engineering practices including secure software development CI/CD automated testing observability and operational excellence.
• Demonstrated success driving cross-organizational execution and influencing engineering strategy across multiple teams and stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8 years of technical engineering experience
• OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10 years of technical engineering experience
• OR equivalent experience.
• 6 years of people management experience leading multiple engineering teams.
• Experience building enterprise-scale identity security governance tenant management or platform engineering solutions.
• Experience building and operating cloud-native services using Microsoft Azure Kubernetes containers distributed systems event-driven architectures and modern platform engineering practices.
• Experience leading platform modernization initiatives involving workflow orchestration automation frameworks platform APIs infrastructure as code and developer platforms.
• Experience driving engineering excellence through architecture governance engineering quality reliability engineering telemetry observability live-site operations and continuous improvement.
• Experience leading AI-native engineering transformations by integrating AI-assisted development intelligent automation and data-driven engineering practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to influence long-term technical strategy and build trusted partnerships across engineering product identity security infrastructure and executive leadership.
• Proven track record of attracting developing and retaining diverse engineering talent while building an inclusive high-performing engineering culture.

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.

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Manager