New 
Principal Software Engineering Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 31, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity 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 Trust and Security Services (TSS) team in the Identity organization manages high scale security services - such as, Public Online CAs, Code Signing, Antimalware scanning, Key Management, Licensing & Activation, Release, which serve as Microsoft's digital trust foundation across products spanning Windows, Office, Xbox games, 3rd party apps, Xbox & Surface hardware, and the commercial Azure cloud. The High Value Asset team within TSS employs best-in-class security (with a strong emphasis on physical security controls) to manage the highest value keys for these portfolios in Hardware Security Modules. We continuously innovate our security and efficiency to address evolving threats while exceeding customer expectations. We are looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineering Manager with a proven history of delivering scalable, high-quality services. Our team values agility and collaboration, and we welcome a leader who brings focus, clarity, and a growth mindset. This role requires a people-centered manager who can support and develop individuals, teams, and partners to thrive in an at speed, dynamic environment. 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. This position has up to 25% travel associated with it
ResponsibilitiesSecurity Obsession: Start with "Security First" mindset continuously thinking about attack vectors, threats & minimizing security risks in everything your team does. People Management: Lead, mentor, coach, and grow a diverse team of talented Security and software engineers delivering world-class security solutions in high-pressure situations. Business Leadership: Ability to start with the "Why", deeply understanding business strategy and needs, and translating them into technical & Security requirements and security controls for the DevSecOps team to deliver. Planning & Execution Excellence: Manage planning and execution-lead multi-quarter planning, resourcing, and cross-team dependencies to deliver on-time, high-quality deliverables. Operational Agility: Reduce toil and overhead across teams by creating clarity around policy, best practices for managing infrastructure and data, and simplifying compliance. Drive automation and centralized capabilities to close security gaps, streamline incident response, and scale best practices across regional operations and facilities.Embody our culture and values | |