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Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.\nSecurity represents one of the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. The Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is accountable for managing and prioritizing cybersecurity risks for Microsoft. This team oversees the company’s overall cyber defense, including the security of Microsoft products and business operations, and collaborates with Engineering teams to advance Secure Future Initiative (SFI) objectives.\nSecurity is a core priority for Microsoft, and Identity and Access Management protections are essential to protecting Microsoft at global scale.\nWe are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team of Software Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) building and operating secure, scalable, cloud-native services and platforms that strengthen endpoint security and protect Microsoft’s enterprise environment. This role combines technical and people leadership to drive platform engineering, endpoint protection, service reliability, security automation, and AI-enabled engineering practices while improving security posture, operational resilience, and engineering productivity.\nResponsibilities\nLead, 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.\nDefine 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.\nDrive 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.\nLead vulnerability and patch management engineering, enabling risk-based prioritization, automated remediation, and measurable reduction of security exposure across enterprise environments.\nDrive automated threat containment and response capabilities that enable timely remediation, limit security incident impact, and improve organizational resilience.\nEstablish 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.\nPartner across engineering, product, identity, security, infrastructure, and operations teams to translate security requirements into integrated platform capabilities and drive execution across organizational boundaries.\nDrive 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.\nBuild an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture by attracting, developing, and mentoring exceptional talent while empowering engineers to innovate, collaborate, take ownership, and grow.\nQualifications\nBachelor'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.\n4+ years of people management experience leading engineering teams comprising Software Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), or both.\nExperience in endpoint security, vulnerability management, or related security engineering domains, including developing or operating capabilities that improve security posture, identify risks, or enable remediation.\nExperience implementing reliability engineering practices to improve service availability, resilience, scalability, and operational efficiency.\nDemonstrated ability to translate complex technical, security, and operational requirements into scalable engineering solutions with measurable outcomes.\nDemonstrated success driving cross-organizational engineering initiatives, managing competing priorities, and aligning technical execution with business objectives.\nPreferred Qualifications\nMaster's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience.\nOR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience.\nOR equivalent experience.\n6+ years of people management experience, including leading multiple engineering teams.\nExperience building enterprise-scale endpoint security, identity, device management, application governance, vulnerability management, or security automation solutions.\nExperience building and operating enterprise-scale endpoint security and vulnerability management solutions, including risk-based prioritization, patching, remediation automation, and security posture improvement.\nExperience building enterprise-scale identity, device management, application governance, security automation, or related security platforms.\nExperience establishing advanced reliability and operational excellence practices, including service-level objectives (SLOs), observability, telemetry, incident management, and automated recovery.\nExperience integrating AI-assisted development, intelligent automation, or data-driven engineering practices into the software development lifecycle.\nDemonstrated ability to influence long-term engineering strategy and build partnerships across engineering, product, security, identity, and infrastructure organizations.\nProven track record of developing engineering talent, building inclusive teams, and improving engineering effectiveness across multiple teams.\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. 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