About this role
Principal Software Engineering Manager
United States, Washington, Redmond
Job description
Company and benefits
Job number
200062481
Date posted
Oct 20, 2026
Work site
3 days / week in-office
Travel
Less than 25%
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Role type
People Manager
Employment type
Full-Time
Overview
Team Overview: Are you excited by the prospect of building identity and cybersecurity services at cloud scale? Microsoft operates thousands of internal Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) identities, groups, tenants that enable our workforce to develop, monitor, and test Microsoft’s software and services. The Identity and Access Management Protect (IAM Protect) team builds, secures, and protects these digital resources, to empower our employees and our customers to achieve more. We develop highly scalable services and solutions to create, enumerate, configure, govern, and secure one of the largest fleets of digital assets in the world.
Role Overview: We are seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to help build, coach, and lead a team that will architect and design the services and solutions to manage Entra ID identities and access at scale. This role will draw deeply upon your expertise in Cybersecurity, ability to lead a team of software engineers, both technically as well as a people manager, and experience in building and operating large scale online service. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of security at Microsoft and leveraging your insights to protect Microsoft services and customers, while leading, guiding, and growing a group of skilled security software engineers.
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, coach, and grow a world-class team of software engineers.
- Support customers and live site operation with a team of DevOps engineers.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership: architecture, design, code reviews, development, security, quality.
- Partner with product management, partners, customers, and other stakeholders to define requirements, scope projects and ship products in rapid, iterative cycles.
- Architecture and design of software systems.
- Operating Online services.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in 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.
Other Requirements:
Candidates must be able 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience operating online services.
- 3+ years of people management experience