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.

We are hiring a Principal Software Engineering Manager to join our mission of securing access to world’s online resources by building and operating a PKI platform with world class fundamentals that makes Entra and Azure customers the most secure and productive in the world. Microsoft Security's Identity & Network Access (IDNA) Team is at the heart of the day-to-day technology experience and secures over a billion monthly active users. It powers the identity experience which is at the core of almost every Microsoft product and service from Windows to Office, from Azure to Xbox. Microsoft Identity is a booming business and we’re just getting started on our mission to secure and protect the world’s most valuable assets and most highly trafficked services. We innovate on multiple technical aspects: 1. Architecting services for large scale and low latency requirements 2. Security investments that is local to the platform as well generic to all services leveraging it. 3. Operating services in an efficient and hands-free manner. 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. 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.

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.

This Hybrid Position is located at our Microsoft office in Redmond, Washington. Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to relocate or reside within 50 miles of the field location.

• Lead and scale a team of 8–10 high-performing software engineers.
• Hire, mentor, coach, and retain top technical talent.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in architecture, design, development, code reviews, and quality assurance.
• Ensure operational excellence and live-site reliability.
• Own and evolve large-scale authorization systems with a focus on security and resiliency.
• Partner with Product Management to deliver short-term goals and long-term business objectives.
• Drive cross-team collaboration across Microsoft partner groups.
• Foster an inclusive, healthy, and high-trust team culture.
• Champion Microsoft values and engineering best practices.
  

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:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.