Group Engineering Manager

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.

Does protecting over 1 billion customers worldwide sound exciting?Do you have what it takes to be part of one of the most important security response teams in the world? Are you passionate about creating technical solutions to empower external security researchers and internal product groups to report and mitigate security issues to help protect Microsoft products/services and customers? If you said yes to those questions, then this may be the opportunity for you!

There are few places in Microsoft that have as direct an impact on as many customers as the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) team. As a Group Engineering Manager, you will provide strong team and engineering leadership, raise the technical bar, maintain a data and results driven culture, and nurture a team culture of high collaboration and trust. Other Engineering and Data Science Managers will report directly to you. We are a fun and growing team whose focus is on protecting customers, communities, and Microsoft from threats to security and privacy on both traditional and emerging areas like AI Security and AI Safety. If you possess excellent critical thinking skills and thrive in a fast-paced, challenging, and dynamic work environment where you will support a global team and you are passionate about your role - we'd love to speak with you!

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.

Responsibilities:

Hire, retain, and lead a cross-functional team across backend, frontend, data science, and infrastructure DevOps. Technologies primarily include C#, .NET Core, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, AI/Machine Learning, PowerBI.

Cultivate a diverse and inclusive, collaborative, positive team culture where everyone has impact, feels engaged and motivated, and can grow on their own personal journey.

Define, communicate, and drive technical strategy and implementation around engineering fundamentals (live-site, compliance, security, etc.), platform architecture, and roadmaps. Security of our systems and services is key. Investing in the fundamentals, such as threat modeling, and using validation mechanisms, like red team results, is required.

Collaborate deeply with PMs, security engineers, and stakeholders to define feature strategy, requirements, and measurable success criteria. Thinking end-to-end and delivering customer delight, not just technical solutions, is required for this role.

Qualifications:

• Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science , or related technical discipline AND 8 + years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.

8+ years leading engineering teams to deliver high scale production services, building a positive engineering culture, and growing your people.

8+ years engineering experience owning high level system architecture design, engineering fundamentals (security, privacy, live-site support, performance, accessibility, etc.), and interactive user experiences at scale.

Experience managing full stack, across backend, frontend, DevOps pipelines, and data science / ML / BI.

Preferred Qualifications:

Technical Azure infrastructure management

Docker and Kubernetes

TypeScript and React

Azure networking and Azure Front Door

AAD identity and access management

SDL and DevSecOps

AI/Machine Learning, Data Warehousing, BI

Interest in learning the vulnerability disclosure, bug bounty ecosystem, and security detection technologies.

Experience working through significant ambiguity to define and execute technical strategic plans.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Software Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 6th, 2025.

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