Principal Software Engineering Manager
Microsoft · Posted Sep 18
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
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About the role
The team builds cloud platforms that enable governments, regulated industries, and mission-critical organizations to adopt cloud services with confidence. This role leads a team responsible for policy-driven compliance experiences, customer audit validation capabilities, and sovereign landing zone experiences that help customers establish trust through verification rather than assertions. As Principal Software Engineering Manager, you will own engineering investments spanning Sovereign Cloud Platform (SCP) policy content, audit evidence and validation workflows, and foundational landing zone experiences for greenfield sovereign cloud deployments, working closely with engineering, compliance, security, operations, and program management partners.
What you will do
- Engineering Leadership
- Lead and grow a team of software engineers responsible for SCP policy and compliance-focused platform experiences.
- Define technical strategy, architecture direction, and execution plans aligned with sovereign cloud business priorities.
- Foster a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, operational rigor, and continuous improvement.
- Drive engineering best practices across design reviews, code quality, reliability, security, and observability.
- Policy & Compliance Experiences
- Own the engineering roadmap for SCP policy content and policy-driven customer experiences.
- Partner with compliance, legal, security, and governance stakeholders to translate regulatory requirements into platform capabilities.
- Enable scalable policy lifecycle management, validation, reporting, and customer-facing compliance experiences.
- Ensure policy content remains accurate, actionable, and aligned with sovereign cloud operational requirements.
- Trust Through Verification
- Lead development of capabilities that enable customers and auditors to independently validate operational controls and compliance assertions.
- Partner with operational teams and systems such as PTL and related operational evidence sources to integrate audit-relevant information into customer experiences.
- Drive solutions that surface operational evidence, control status, compliance posture, and audit artifacts in a secure and consumable manner.Establish engineering patterns that support audit readiness, traceability, and transparency.
- Build and enhance services that collect, correlate, and present operations-related audit information.
- Work cross-functionally with compliance, risk, audit, and engineering organizations to streamline customer audit engagements.
- Develop scalable mechanisms for evidence collection, validation, retention, and reporting.
- Improve automation and reduce manual effort associated with customer audits and compliance assessments.
- Operational Excellence
- Drive service reliability, performance, availability, and security objectives.
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term engineering improvements.
- Establish measurable success metrics and use data to guide engineering investments.
- Ensure services meet the operational expectations of highly regulated sovereign environments.
- Cross-Organization Leadership
- Collaborate closely with Product Management, Compliance, Security, Risk, Operations, Customer Success, and executive stakeholders.
- Communicate technical strategy, risks, and progress to senior leadership.
- Influence roadmap decisions across multiple engineering organizations.
- Represent the team in customer, audit, and compliance discussions as needed.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related technical field AND 10+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years' experience leading/managing a high-performance engineering team.
- Experience delivering cloud platform, security, compliance, governance, or enterprise services at scale.
- Experience building customer-facing platforms or services that integrate data from multiple operational systems.
- Strong knowledge of software engineering fundamentals, distributed systems, service architecture, and cloud-native technologies.
- Experience driving technical execution across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to balance customer needs, compliance requirements, and engineering excellence.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working in sovereign cloud, government cloud, regulated industries, or highly compliant environments.Familiarity with compliance frameworks and audit programs such as ISO 27001, SOC, FedRAMP, NIST, CJIS, GDPR, or equivalent regulatory standards.
- Experience building governance, policy, compliance, risk, or audit management systems.
- Experience with evidence automation, control validation, compliance reporting, or assurance platforms.
- Knowledge of cloud landing zone architectures and enterprise cloud adoption frameworks.
- Experience driving cross-organizational platform initiatives that span engineering, compliance, and operations.
- Understanding of operational control frameworks and trust/assurance models.
- Experience working directly with auditors, regulators, or compliance organizations.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company that develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and hardware devices. Best known for its Windows operating systems, Microsoft 365 productivity suite, and Xbox gaming consoles, the company has expanded heavily into enterprise cloud computing via Azure and advanced artificial intelligence solutions. As one of the world's most valuable public enterprises, it empowers individuals and businesses globally through innovative digital transformation.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 228,000+ employees
- Founded
- April 4, 1975
- Location
- Redmond, Washington, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Vice Chair and President
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