Principal Software Engineering Manager

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Principal Software Engineering Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India


Date posted
Jul 23, 2025
Job number
1850186
Work site
Microsoft on-site only
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
People Manager
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

Security 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 CISO is to enable Microsoft to build the most trusted devices and services, while keeping our company safe and our data protected. As part of Microsoft’s Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management organization, and a steward of Microsoft and our customer’s data, a core function of Microsoft DSR is ensuring the security of every aspect of the business. Microsoft DSR is responsible for company-wide information security and compliance, with a strategic focus on information protection, assessment, awareness, governance, and enterprise business continuity. As customer zero, we deploy and secure these services inside Microsoft and then share best practices with enterprise customers at scale across the globe. 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!


Our team, Security Services & Engineering is seeking a Principal SWE Manager who brings in deep technical and problem-solving skills, and can lead a fast-paced team, build large scale system, drive critical design initiatives, be accountable for delivery and take part in strategic and tactical decisions. Join us as we create and deliver mission critical services and processes to enable Microsoft’s Identity Platform. We build and manage services to manage continuous security posture of cloud scale services. The team is customer focused with an emphasis on security, a great user experience and high reliability. If that sounds like the right environment for you, please join us! If you have experience working with high scale applications and services, come and share your learnings; otherwise bring your passion and willingness to learn. As an Engineering Manager on the team, your leadership will be critical in ensuring engineering rigor and driving security innovation. You must be passionate about building secure services and will also have opportunities to nurture new ideas for additional business outcomes and deliver high quality of service. You will be leading and influencing other engineers on the team and cross group, create and maintain positive and productive working relationships.


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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of industry experience in software development and building world class solutions.
  • 5+ years as an engineering manager
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
  • Experience/knowledge of cloud computing, enterprise computing, database products
  • Experience in technical leadership in driving engineering roadmaps, leading v-teams, mentoring and helping others grow technically.
  • Experience in designing, developing, deploying, and operating reliable systems, with experience in distributed systems fundamentals.
  • Experience writing maintainable code in C++/C#/Java/Python.
  • Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills.
  • Excellent communication skill and executive presence
  • Passion to grow a diverse team of engineers and managers.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Proficient working knowledge of cloud-computing environments like Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP - Azure preferred.
  • Experience with web service development and familiar with related technologies.
  • Experience with building microservices using DAPR, Containers and gRPC.
  • Experience building applications with enterprise scale, reliability, and resilience.
  • Knowledge of Power BI, including the ability to design and develop interactive dashboards, reports, and data visualizations to support analysis and decision-making.
  • Ability to define, design and implement telemetry and proactive monitoring for the services to run the operations efficiently in production environments.
  • Experience implementing feature flags and experimentation.
  • Familiar with modern security models like OAuth and token-based authentication and authorization.
  • Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.
  • Experience using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD).

Responsibilities

  • Influence and align product vision by collaborating with customers, partners, product management and engineering teams.
  • Focus on scaling services to meet emerging enterprise needs, operability of the service including security, privacy, resiliency, business continuity & disaster recovery.
  • A hands-on technical leader who sets the engineering direction with sound design practices and guides the team with best practices in software design.
  • Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of various capabilities within migration with focus on quality, scale, and sustainable development practices.
  • Experience in technical leadership in driving engineering roadmaps, leading teams, mentoring, and helping others grow.
  • Own career development of team through active coaching.
  • Lead the team by bringing clarity, creating energy, and driving results.
  • Create a strong team culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity, and inclusion.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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