
Senior Software Engineering Manager
at Microsoft
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Lead and empower engineering teams to design and deliver distributed systems across AI security, identity protection, and SaaS defense. Own end-to-end architecture, cloud interactions, and infrastructure code at scale, driving best practices, performance, and reliability. Collaborate with product engineers across initiatives, mentor engineers, participate in incident response, test maturity reviews, and on-call rotations. Ensure strong technical leadership, architecture governance, and high-quality user experiences across products.
We are dynamic team focused on securing cutting-edge AI and cloud technologies in a rapidly evolving threat landscape. We are leading new initiatives and research projects across AI Security, Identity Protection, and SaaS Defense.
Our teams are dedicated to building cutting-edge Cyber Defense solutions, leveraging state-of-the-art cloud technologies, big data, AI, and modern UX platforms to deliver unparalleled value to our customers.
Responsibilities
- Understanding of the distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, basic dependencies at scale, and the code that defines infrastructures.
- Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
- Shares and defines insights, best practices, and standards that can be applied to improve system, platform, and/or product development and operations across the business.
- Expands end-to-end technical expertise in the architecture, code, features, operations and comprehensive use scenarios of products in order to drive continuous improvements.
- Contribute to the product fundamentals and architecture, share knowledge, and code, always looking for ways to make what we build useful to multiple teams and products.
- Demonstrates end-to-end expertise in distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers.
- Support ongoing engagements with product engineering teams by participating in test maturity reviews, static analysis reviews, meetings, on-call rotations, and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles.
- Provides deep business and technical expertise as required to resolve major incidents.
Qualifications
- Qualifications Required –
- Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Overall 10+ years out of which 8+ years of software design and development experiences
- Experience in people and project management with strong technical leadership
- Solid Experience driving architecture/design/implementation and delivery of great user experiences
- Experience with large scale services, distributed systems
- Excellent communication and cross team collaboration skill
- Excellent system design and problem-solving skills
- Experience optimizing automation, reliability, and monitoring of live services
- Passionate about user experience and user facing features
- Experience with cloud technologies (Azure)
- Qualifications: Other Requirements –
- Bachelor's Degree in 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 or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of software engineering people‑management experience.
- Bachelor's Degree in 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 or Python
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.

