# Principal Software Engineering Manager

OverviewSecurity represents one of the most critical priorities for our customers in a world of evolving digital threats, increasing regulatory requirements, growing estate complexity, and rapid advances in AI. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place by empowering every user, customer, and developer with integrated security solutions that protect across heterogeneous environments. Perception is an advanced Agentic AI platform designed to empower security and IT teams to operate at the speed and scale of AI while adhering to Microsoft’s responsible AI principles. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team responsible for defining, building, and evolving the foundational capabilities of the Perception Platform. This role will focus on enabling AI platform capabilities to operate securely, reliably, and at scale across multiple tenants and diverse enterprise environments. In this role, you will lead engineers solving complex and ambiguous challenges across Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), memory, reasoning, agentic and multi-agent systems, identity and authorization, AI safety, distributed cloud servic

- **Id**: 3848772
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-software-engineering-manager-20>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Redmond, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-29T23:05:17Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T13:13:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 8
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 13950
- **Description truncated**: yes
- **Benefits**: Growth opportunities
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 456
- **Ghost share**: 0.007
- **Stale share**: 0.59
- **Repost share**: 0.039
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 142800
- **Max**: 274800
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 274800

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Incident Management** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Semantic Search** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 8

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T01:44:38Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,957 · green card filings: 2,767; Filings 12m: 6957

## Liveness

- **Score**: 37
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.374
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 8
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, evergreen, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 274800
- **Is top pay**: yes

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