Principal Software Engineering Manager

** Overview*
* Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate.

The  
** Service-to-Service Authentication Team
** builds and operates the foundation that secures non-human identity and communication across Microsoft and customer environments. Our services authenticate and authorize billions of transactions every hour, protecting critical Azure infrastructure, Microsoft services, customer workloads, and the next generation of AI-powered agents. As a core component of Microsoft's security and cloud platform, our systems operate at global scale and are essential to the trust, reliability, and resilience of the world's most important digital experiences.

Security threats continue to evolve rapidly, and service identities have become one of the most critical security boundaries in modern computing. As a highly strategic and security-sensitive area of investment, our team is shaping the future of how services, applications, and AI agents establish trust and communicate securely across the Microsoft ecosystem.

We are seeking a  
** Principal Software Engineering Manager
** to drive the next phase of our transformation. In this role, you will lead a team of talented engineers, define technical and organizational strategy, improve engineering excellence and operational effectiveness, and partner across Microsoft Security, Entra, and Azure to deliver secure, resilient, and scalable identity solutions. This is an opportunity to influence authentication systems that underpin Microsoft's cloud platform while helping define the future of service identity for the AI era.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We embrace a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Every day, we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

** Responsibilities*
* + Lead, coach, and grow a diverse team of engineers, cultivating an inclusive, high-performing culture that attracts and develops world-class talent.

+ Define and execute the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for service-to-service authentication capabilities that operate at cloud scale.

+ Drive engineering execution by establishing clear priorities, decision-making frameworks, and operating rhythms that enable predictable delivery and measurable impact.

+ Partner across Azure, Security, Entra, and platform teams to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient identity solutions that address evolving customer and business needs.

+ Champion a security-first engineering culture, ensuring systems are designed and operated with a focus on defense-in-depth, reliability, privacy, and compliance.

+ Lead the team's adoption of AI-powered and AI-assisted engineering practices while maintaining a great foundation in software engineering fundamentals and quality.

+ Drive operational excellence through clear service ownership, live-site health management, incident response readiness, and continuous improvement of reliability and resiliency.

+ Foster customer obsession by leveraging…