Security is a topic you read about every day, and securing the Cloud is more important than ever. Business and governments are under constant threat from a variety of actors, and they are moving to the Cloud in record numbers. Today there is a limited pool of people who know how to build and operate cloud-native applications and secure and protect them and the infrastructure they run on. We protect Microsoft’s customers and their data across the world and secure the Microsoft Cloud. In the mobile-first cloud-first world, security is among the most important elements to get right, enabling trust and keeping people and their data safe.

We are hiring a leader who is passionate about security, Machine Learning (ML) and building distributed and highly available services. This individual will build and manage a team which will focus on protecting and securing the compute resources in Azure.

Join our team and help protect hundreds of millions of customers, Azure’s own infrastructure and generally chasing after bad guys. We are a tight-knit community of engineers who work together to solve design, research and coding challenges. We value communication and problem-solving skills.

Core to our team culture is the believe that in order to run a successful service you must have a ‘people-first’ approach to sustainably building and running cloud services. That means we put an extra emphasis on having a healthy live site and while our services support millions of assets and hundreds of customers, our services’ health and live site cadence is super healthy.

Our aim is to be the best and most successful security organization in the world and have fun while doing so. If you are a security enthusiast with an interest in artificial intelligence, this is a great opportunity for you right at the intersection of what Microsoft greatly cares about: cloud, security and AI.

Responsibilities

As a Principal SWE Manager, you’ll bring clarity, create energy, and drive results thru systems/services engineering to help us secure the Azure cloud. Other responsibilities include:

Design and develop large-scale highly configurable, scalable, robust data processing solution to process(transform) large scale data received from Cloud Supplier factories and Microsoft data centers.

Promote excellent software engineering practice and produce high quality code to ensure high availability post deployment.

Drive end to end process including development, code review, testing, continuous integration, and delivery (CI/CD), and deployment.

Be data driven in decision making and in influencing teams, business and partners.

Experiment with and recommend new technologies that simplify or improve the tech stack.

Envision, design, write and deliver software and infrastructure to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, operability and efficiency of your services.

Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, service integration and geo-expansion, software performance analysis and system tuning.

And most of all, you'll demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:  

8+ years of industry software engineering experience (any programming language is applicable) 

2+ years of people management experience

2-3 years cloud experience (Azure preferred but all cloud platforms will suffice) 

Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge of security, Machine Learning (ML) technologies is helpful but not necessary.

Experience shipping distributed systems, services and highly available infrastructure.

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.