Senior Software Engineering Manager
Microsoft · Posted Sep 28
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
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About the role
The Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsoft's mission to secure digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in heterogeneous customer environments, and the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) oversees the company's overall cyber defense and partners with engineering teams on the Secure Future Initiative. This Senior Engineering Manager role leads a team of Software Engineers building cloud-native platform services for Microsoft's tenant management and identity ecosystem. The role combines technical and people leadership to deliver scalable distributed systems, modern engineering platforms, intelligent automation, and AI-native engineering practices that strengthen Microsoft's security posture.
What you will do
- Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing team of Software Engineers building secure, cloud-native platform services that power Microsoft's tenant lifecycle management, orchestration, identity governance, and application governance capabilities.
- Define the engineering vision, technical strategy, and architecture for next-generation platform capabilities spanning tenant lifecycle automation, workflow orchestration, and AI-enabled engineering experiences.
- Drive the design and delivery of scalable distributed systems, APIs, platform services, and data-driven solutions that improve security, operational efficiency, and developer productivity.
- Partner across engineering, product, identity, security, data, and infrastructure teams to translate customer needs into integrated platform capabilities while driving cross-organizational execution.
- Champion engineering excellence by fostering AI-native software development, modern engineering practices, secure-by-design principles, high-quality architecture, testing, code quality, and operational readiness.
- Lead platform modernization through cloud-native architectures, API-first design, Infrastructure as Code, automation, CI/CD, observability, and data-driven engineering practices.
- Establish operational excellence by building resilient services with comprehensive monitoring, telemetry, live-site readiness, incident management, and continuous service improvements.
- 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, and grow.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ 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 high-performing Software Engineering teams delivering cloud-native applications, distributed systems, platform services, or enterprise engineering platforms.
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating highly available, mission-critical distributed systems or cloud-native platform services at enterprise scale.
- Experience leading engineering organizations through architecture evolution, platform modernization, and delivery of complex technical initiatives using modern engineering practices, including secure software development, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and operational excellence.
- Demonstrated success driving cross-organizational execution and influencing engineering strategy across multiple teams and stakeholders.
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 OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of people management experience leading multiple engineering teams.
- Experience building enterprise-scale identity, security, governance, tenant management, or platform engineering solutions.
- Experience building and operating cloud-native services using Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, containers, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and modern platform engineering practices.
- Experience leading platform modernization initiatives involving workflow orchestration, automation frameworks, platform APIs, infrastructure as code, and developer platforms.
- Experience driving engineering excellence through architecture governance, engineering quality, reliability engineering, telemetry, observability, live-site operations, and continuous improvement.
- Experience leading AI-native engineering transformations by integrating AI-assisted development, intelligent automation, and data-driven engineering practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Demonstrated ability to influence long-term technical strategy and build trusted partnerships across engineering, product, identity, security, infrastructure, and executive leadership.
- Proven track record of attracting, developing, and retaining diverse engineering talent while building an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture.
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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