Senior Security Engineer Manager
Microsoft · Posted Nov 5
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
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About the role
The Cloud & AI organization works to secure Microsoft’s and customers’ digital platforms, devices, and clouds, while the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer manages and prioritizes cybersecurity risks for Microsoft. The team focuses on endpoint security platforms, cloud-native services, site reliability engineering, security automation, and AI-enabled engineering practices. This role leads Software Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers to build and operate secure, scalable services that strengthen endpoint protection, vulnerability management, and enterprise security posture.
What you will do
- Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing team of Software Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers building secure, scalable services and platforms for endpoint protection, device management, security operations, and enterprise security.
- Define the engineering vision, technical strategy, and architecture for endpoint security platforms spanning policy enforcement, application governance, vulnerability management, device health, security telemetry, and automated threat response.
- Drive the development of scalable, automated security capabilities that translate security policies into enforceable controls, govern application trust and privileged access, and continuously improve endpoint security posture.
- Lead vulnerability and patch management engineering, enabling risk-based prioritization, automated remediation, and measurable reduction of security exposure across enterprise environments.
- Drive automated threat containment and response capabilities that enable timely remediation, limit security incident impact, and improve organizational resilience.
- Establish and evolve site reliability engineering practices, including service-level objectives (SLOs), availability, capacity planning, resilience engineering, production readiness, and systematic reduction of operational toil for mission-critical services.
- Partner across engineering, product, identity, security, infrastructure, and operations teams to translate security requirements into integrated platform capabilities and drive execution across organizational boundaries.
- Drive execution across multiple engineering investments by managing technical priorities, dependencies, resources, and delivery commitments while balancing long-term platform strategy with near-term business objectives.
- Build an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture by attracting, developing, and mentoring exceptional talent while empowering engineers to innovate, collaborate, take ownership, and grow.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience designing and building large-scale software systems, with coding experience in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or C#. OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of people management experience leading engineering teams comprising Software Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), or both.
- Experience in endpoint security, vulnerability management, or related security engineering domains, including developing or operating capabilities that improve security posture, identify risks, or enable remediation.
- Experience implementing reliability engineering practices to improve service availability, resilience, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical, security, and operational requirements into scalable engineering solutions with measurable outcomes.
- Demonstrated success driving cross-organizational engineering initiatives, managing competing priorities, and aligning technical execution with business objectives.
Preferred qualifications
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience.
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience.
- 6+ years of people management experience, including leading multiple engineering teams.
- Experience building enterprise-scale endpoint security, identity, device management, application governance, vulnerability management, or security automation solutions.
- Experience building and operating enterprise-scale endpoint security and vulnerability management solutions, including risk-based prioritization, patching, remediation automation, and security posture improvement.
- Experience building enterprise-scale identity, device management, application governance, security automation, or related security platforms.
- Experience establishing advanced reliability and operational excellence practices, including service-level objectives (SLOs), observability, telemetry, incident management, and automated recovery.
- Experience integrating AI-assisted development, intelligent automation, or data-driven engineering practices into the software development lifecycle.
- Demonstrated ability to influence long-term engineering strategy and build partnerships across engineering, product, security, identity, and infrastructure organizations.
- Proven track record of developing engineering talent, building inclusive teams, and improving engineering effectiveness across multiple teams.
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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