Microsoft · 1 day ago
Principal Software Engineer Manager
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. The Principal Software Engineer Manager will lead the Sentinel Enterprise Readiness team to build foundational access control, tenant isolation, and key management capabilities for Microsoft Sentinel, ensuring security and compliance for enterprise customers worldwide.
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Responsibilities
Security Architecture & Access Governance Own the end-to-end architecture for Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Multi-Tenant Operations (MTO), defining secure authorization models, least-privilege policies, and tenant isolation guarantees across control plane and data plane services
Customer-Managed Key (CMK) Strategy & Compliance Lead the design and execution of Customer-Managed Key (CMK) capabilities, including key lifecycle management, rotation, revocation, and disaster recovery, ensuring compliance with enterprise security, regulatory (SOC, ISO, FedRAMP), and customer data sovereignty requirements
Platform Reliability, Scale, and Risk Management Drive platform-level reliability, scalability, and fault isolation for RBAC, MTO, and CMK systems operating at hyperscale, including threat modeling, blast-radius reduction, secure defaults, and continuous improvement of SLAs and security posture
Operational Excellence & Incident Readiness Establish operational playbooks, telemetry, audits, and incident response workflows for access control and encryption systems, leading post-incident reviews, driving root-cause remediation, and continuously raising the bar on security hygiene and operational maturity
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
2+ years of experience working as team manager with group of 8+ members working on large scale cloud applications and services
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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Preferred
Master's 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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
4+ years people management experience
Company
Microsoft
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10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Satya Nadella
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