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Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft


Job Location:

Redmond, WA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 165600 - 296400
Posted: 5 October 2026 (14 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 2 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Software Engineering

Job Summary

Overview

The Purview Fundamentals team is core to Microsoft Purview and provides platform services from Authorization Policies Scopes Alerts and Audits. We build the platform that supports Microsoft Purview and its millions of customers worldwide. We are looking for rockstar Engineering Manager who leads a team of amazing engineers and owns our services that solve customer needs ensures security and compliance are baked into the design and helps grow our engineers.

Microsofts 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

Own the end-to-end delivery of Microsoft Purview features and services driving execution from strategy and design through development deployment and customer adoption.

Lead and grow a team of software engineers by providing coaching career development performance guidance and fostering an inclusive engineering culture.

Drive service reliability availability and operational excellence through incident management post-incident reviews (PIRs) on-call readiness and continuous service improvements.

Partner with product management security compliance and platform teams to define roadmaps prioritize investments and deliver customer and business outcomes.

Champion security-first engineering practices ensuring adherence to Secure Future Initiative (SFI) compliance requirements privacy standards and vulnerability remediation goals.

Establish engineering processes quality standards and metrics aligned with New Production Function (leveraging Agents across SDLC)

Lead cross-functional collaboration across Microsoft Security M365 Entra and platform teams to deliver integrated Purview experiences.

Drive technical architecture and design reviews balancing scalability reliability performance and cost considerations.

Manage operational priorities technical debt reduction and long-term platform modernization efforts.

Communicate engineering status risks dependencies and strategic recommendations to senior leadership and stakeholders.

Sponsor customer-focused innovation by leveraging telemetry feedback and data-driven insights to improve Purview products and services.

Ensure teams maintain strong ownership of compliance governance RBAC data protection and enterprise security requirements across Purview workloads.

Embody ourcultureandvalues



Qualifications

Qualifications - Required:

  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python OR equivalent experience.


Qualifications - 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:

  • Masters Degree in computer Science Expertise in Distributed Systems Expertise in Software Security
  • 10 years of experience delivering enterprise scale software services.
  • 5 years of experience in leading software engineering teams

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Software Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165600 - $296400 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 $220800 - $331200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
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.


Required Experience:

Manager