Microsoft · 23 hours ago
Principal Security Engineering Manager
United States, Washington, Redmond
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$163K/yr - $296K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is looking for a Principal Security Engineering Manager to enhance the security of Microsoft Windows products and devices, focusing on offensive security and security engineering. The role involves leading a team of security engineers to identify vulnerabilities, develop mitigations, and collaborate with product engineering teams to ensure robust security measures are in place.
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Responsibilities
Lead strategy and execution of team to identify and mitigate risk in Microsoft products, including design review, code reviews, and fuzzing
Be the primary leader and influential voice to manage threats & business risks, and systematic mitigation plan across entire the org
Leverage a broad and current understanding of security to devise new protections and exploit mitigations, through internal and external security community and groups
Collaborate and drive accountability with product teams to improve security and articulate the business value of security investments
Manage & grow high performance team with learn-it-all and frontier culture
Qualification
Required
Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years experience in security or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years experience in security or related field OR equivalent experience
3+ years people management
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Preferred
3+ years of experience security experience with native code (C/C++) and binaries, such as identifying vulnerabilities, reverse engineering, or similar, demonstrating ability to lead exploit mitigations and platform-level defense techniques
Ability to create clarity, energy, and cohesion across the team
Ability to influence and drive security initiatives across groups
3+ years of managing 20+ teams
10+ years of experience in a software engineering or security-related engineering
Demonstrated experience in security research, especially around vulnerability discovery
Experience exploiting bugs and bypassing security mitigations in operating systems
Familiarity with Microsoft Windows architecture
Company
Microsoft
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