Principal Software Engineering Manager

Redmond, Washington, United States

Date posted

Oct 30, 2025

Job number

1903228

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

0-25%

Role type

People Manager

Profession

Software Engineering

Discipline

Software Engineering

Employment type

Full-Time

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 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

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, 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.
• 3+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices
• 1+ years people management experience.

Other Requirements:

• 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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, 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.
• 5+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices
• 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Industry certifications such as CISM / CISSP / ISC or equivalent hands-on experience (5+ years) with Security Design and Risk management.
• Familiarity with hardware security modules(HSM)

Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 14, 2025.

• Security 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

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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Industry leading healthcare

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Educational resources

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Discounts on products and services

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Savings and investments

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Maternity and paternity leave

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Generous time away

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Giving programs

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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.